TNT Insider Staff | November 27, 2009 | Labour, Uncategorized

Duke, new PSA President

PSA has a Duke as leader. The Baptiste-Primus juggernauth has lost favour with the membership.

It looks like the Jennifer Baptiste-Primus hegemony in the Public Services Association is over.
Two days after the powerful union’s internal elections, the winner has not been formally announced but according to chief elections officer Leonard Baldwin, Watson Duke [...]

Nello Lewis | October 20, 2009 | Labour

Ciuseppi calls for labour protection

e on the financial crisis as it affects labour. He calls on governments to sit down with the trade union movement to find solutions.

Whatever happened to Robert Giuseppi ?
Well, Giuseppi who was ousted as President of the National Union of Government and Federated Workers (NUFGW) has bounced back. He was recently [...]

Jeff Hackett | June 19, 2009 | Labour

The OWTU and June 19

John F. Rojas, the man who built the OWTU into a powerhouse is never mentioned. Today, in Fyzabad, disunity in the labour movement will as be evident as it was when the holiday was first celebrated in 1972.

George Weekes was released from jail a mere three days before the June 19 holiday for [...]

Nello Lewis | April 11, 2009 | Labour

Union declares a holiday

The National Union of Government and Federated Workers Trade Union (NUGFW) declared last Tuesday a “union holiday”, closing all its offices in the process.