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Dear Editor: Government spinning Anansi stories to suppress workers’ wages
“[…] Minister Imbert has […] set the stage for entrenching the austerity programme the IMF has long been advising: privatisation, deregulation, the reduction of the public sector, wage suppression.
“This austerity, of course, involves the weakening of the trade unions through the hiving off of the health sector, a de facto wage freeze at 2013 rates, the wholesale introduction of fixed-term contracts over recent decades and the seduction of trade union leaders by the conglomerates and the political parties …”
The following Letter to the Editor was submitted to Wired868 by Gerry Kangalee, education and research officer at the National Workers’ Union:
Unions accuse Imbert of dangerous mischief cnc3.co.tt - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnc3.co.tt Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
February 21 will mark nine days after the burial of Andrea Bharatt, and it is likely that the marching, candlelight vigils and accusations of ‘shedding crocodile tears’ will no longer be at the forefront of our minds. We will retreat to the burglar-proofed boxes we call homes and cautiously peer out, waiting for the next uproar.
Just as we forgot Akeil Chambers and the hundreds of persons who have been brutally murdered since his murder, Andrea Bharatt will recede to the dark spaces of our memories, forgotten forever. That is what our politicians expect and that is a reasonable expectation based on our past behaviour.
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