Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has urged T&TEC work­ers to “hold strain,” af­ter they staged a protest yes­ter­day de­mand­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the com­pa­ny’s board of di­rec­tors.

“The new board of T&TEC will go be­fore the Cab­i­net on Thurs­day. There­fore, I ask the com­pa­ny and the em­ploy­ees to hold strain, change is com­ing. Re­demp­tion day is at hand,” he said in re­sponse to the work­ers’ de­mands.

The protest out­side T&TEC’s head of­fice on Fred­er­ick Street, Port-of-Spain, was led by Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) sec­ond vice pres­i­dent Reesa Ram­lo­gan-Jod­ha.