San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has ac­cused trade union lead­ers of go­ing against their mem­ber­ship and “kiss­ing up” to the Prime Min­is­ter while thou­sands of CEPEP, URP and Forestry work­ers suf­fer.

Speak­ing at the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s po­lit­i­cal meet­ing at the Pleas­antville Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre on Tues­day night, Man­ning crit­i­cised the unions’ re­sponse to the dis­missal of CEPEP work­ers. PNM sup­port­ers dressed in red cheered as the Op­po­si­tion pre­pared to re­but the achieve­ments list­ed by the UNC Gov­ern­ment in its first 100 days in of­fice.

Pre­dict­ing a de­val­u­a­tion of the TT dol­lar and a “self-in­flict­ed” eco­nom­ic cri­sis, Man­ning said hard times were ahead.