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With Labour Day on the horizon, Vice President of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union, Ernesto Kesar was on TV6's Morning Edition Programme on Monday where he spoke about the issues faced by trade unions in recent times...

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00:00On the day on the horizon, Vice President of the Oilfield Workers' Trade Union, Ernesto
00:04Kezar, was on TV6's Morning Edition program today, where he spoke about the issues faced
00:09by trade unions in recent times.
00:21One of the major issues that is facing Trinidad and Tobago right now is the reversing of gains
00:29that has been won by the labor movement from 1937 to now, that continues to be whittled
00:36away and taken away in some cases by legislation from the current administration.
00:43In addition to that, you have the PSA winning a major battle quite recently against this
00:534%.
00:54You have the Privy Council echoing through the EPA's recent judgment that what seems
00:59to be a clear bias taking place in the industrial court.
01:03You have also this issue of the ongoing battle with the Revenue Authority trying to be foisted
01:07on the public.
01:09And then you have the issue here of the government not coming up with creative ways to increase
01:15foreign exchange and to increase sustainable employment, but pursuing on an agenda to tax
01:22their way out.
01:24Kezar also gave his thoughts on claims made by Dr. Jerome T. Laksing over the weekend
01:28is that some trade unions have gone soft.
01:32I am glad that now people are understanding that the issue of what you have so-called
01:38is not radical action, brother Marlon.
01:41It's not radical.
01:42It is action that come at Butler, come at George Weeks, and even come at McLeod and
01:47now come at Roger, actions that was necessary to protect what we, what our forefathers would
01:55have gained.
01:56Let us remind the public on this Labor Day that had it not been for the labor movement,
02:01we would not have had adult franchise.
02:03We would not have had independence.
02:06We would not have been a republic.
02:08We would not have had labor laws, notwithstanding that they are wanting and outdated.
02:15It is the labor movement that sets standards for employment.
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