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Labour unmoved by calls to return to NTAC
Michael Annisette - ROGER JACOB
THE LABOUR movement appears to be unmoved by calls for it to return to the National Tripartite Advisory Council (NTAC). The National Trade Union Centre (Natuc), the Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions and NGOs (FITUN) all resigned from NTAC on March 11.
NTAC chairman, Planning and Development Minister Camille Robinson-Regis, subsequently urged the three labour organisations to rejoin the council in the best interest of the country.
Asked on Saturday if there were any other efforts by Government to persuade the labour movement to rejoin NTAC, Natuc general secretary Michael Annisette replied, Not to my knowledge, other than the formal statements made by former minister of labour Jennifer Baptiste-Primus and the chairman of the committee (Robinson-Regis).
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One from three leaves nought
Sunday 14 March 2021
Trade union leaders emerge after a meeting to discuss their exit from the National Tripartite Advisory Council last week in Port of Spain. - SUREASH CHOLAI
The withdrawal of the trade union movement en masse from the National Tripartite Advisory Council (NTAC) all but ensures that the work of the council will become meaningless.
The Joint Trade Union Movement, the National Trade Union Centre and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions announced on Wednesday that they are withdrawing from NTAC because of what NATUC vice-president James Lambert described as the disrespect we have experienced from the government of TT.
Demming: The real-life drama between trade unions and the government
We ‘love up’ on Tuesday night and on Wednesday, you tell the world that you are no longer in a relationship with me. That is a description of the real-life drama that unfolded as the leaders of the trade union federations exited the National Tripartite Advisory Council (NTAC).
It is reminiscent of those women who cleared out their marital home while their partners were at work, and the partner returned to find an empty space with their clothes on the bedroom floor. Most times the women cite disrespect, abuse and neglect as the reasons for their departure. It is almost the same reasons given by the national trade union movement for why they left the NTAC organisation.