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On Intl Day of Nurses, JTUM calls for better treatment of nurses 2 Hrs Ago Nurses of the St Ann's Psychiatric Hospital during a protest back in June 2020. International Day of Nurses was observed on Thursday. FILE PHOTO - In celebration of International Day of Nurses on Thursday, the Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) called on the government and Ministry of Health to use the occasion to think about issues such as poor working conditions, inadequate staffing, unsettled wages and salaries negotiations, outstanding arrears, shortage of personal protective equipment and other matters plaguing nu...

Some of the Perenco Trinidad and Tobago Limited workers wait on a shuttle boat to be transferred to Point Galeota on Sunday, after testing positive for COVID-19. The Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) has expressed anger at the attitude of Perenco Trinidad and Tobago’s management in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak on two of its platforms and at its threat to discipline workers should they disclose any information on the incident to any third party, including the media. In a statement issued last evening, JTUM said the threat letter and other correspondences issued to workers by the oil a...

Some of the Perenco Trinidad and Tobago Limited workers wait on a shuttle boat to be transferred to Point Galeota on Sunday, after testing positive for COVID-19. The Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU) has written to Dr Roshan Parasram, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at the Ministry of Health, asking him to intervene in the situation at offshore platforms belonging to energy company Perenco, where several workers have contracted COVID-19. In the correspondence signed by Acting President Mario Als—and which was shared with workers and the media—BIGWU calls on the CMO “to ...

Motivated? what would be the impetus for that? the rest of them are saying we don't want one. >> 35 workers is a lot of workers and what union leaders say is that unions are more productive so if it's going to be more productive, then why wouldn't a business want to do it? the problem is now that we restrict businesses and give unions more power at the bargaining table because what we do is we say if it's a majority union, you must bargain with it. so the employer has no other option. >> what do you see happening over the next 10 years when it comes to unions? do you see another major drop lik...