KEEP YOUR PROMISES TO US!

A trade union leader yes­ter­day called on Gov­ern­ment to keep the promis­es it made dur­ing the cam­paign trail and al­so chal­lenged oth­er union lead­ers, whom he said had lost their way, to stand with work­ers or step aside, warn­ing that sol­i­dar­i­ty could not be prac­tised on­ly when con­ve­nient.

Speak­ing at the labour move­ment’s ral­ly in Wood­ford Square fol­low­ing a march through Port-of-Spain, Steel Work­ers’ Union of T&T pres­i­dent Tim­o­thy Bai­ley urged trade union­ists to put work­ers’ in­ter­ests ahead of per­son­al con­sid­er­a­tions.

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“I do not want to be­lieve you are sell­outs. So, I call on my com­rades who have lost their way to un­der­stand that sol­i­dar­i­ty is for­ev­er. It is not a con­ve­nient thing. It is for­ev­er. Do right by the work­ing class. Do your job or leave the job,” he said.