Claxton Bay: As strike action continues at Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL), the Oilfields Workers Trade Union (OWTU) has written to unions representing workers at the Barbados and Jamaica cement plants both subsidiaries of the TCL group asking them to with hold the sending of cement from either country
The request was made as the OWTU informed the Barbados Workers Union, the National Union of Public Workers, both in Barbados, and the National Workers Union of Jamaica, of the strike currently underway at TCL.
Citing a breakdown in negotiations as the reason for the strike, the OWTU requested that regional unions representing workers at the Barbados and Jamaica cement plants stand in solidarity with Trinidad workers.
The OWTU explained that TCL’s General Manager, Satnarine Bachew has indicated that efforts would be made to supplement the supply of cement to the Trinidad and Tobago market with product from the Arawak plant in Barbados and/or the Carib cement plant in Jamaica.
Urging their regional comrades to ensure that their members are not used to undermine the strike action currently underway in Trinidad and Tobago, the union says it would be of importance to the OWTU’s struggle if no cement comes from Barbados or Jamaica to Trinidad during the period of the strike.
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