The trade union move­ment has joined forces with the Con­fed­er­a­tion of Re­gion­al Busi­ness Cham­bers (CR­BC) to seek fund­ing from in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial mar­kets in a bid to restart the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

An­nounc­ing the col­lab­o­ra­tion dur­ing a press brief­ing at the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU) head­quar­ters in San Fer­nan­do on Wednes­day night, OW­TU pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get said the dis­cus­sions were in the ear­ly stages, but they in­tend to present a de­tailed plan to the Gov­ern­ment’s min­is­te­r­i­al team and then to the na­tion.

Michael An­nisette, gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) and pres­i­dent of the Sea­men Wa­ter­front Work­ers Trade Union Move­ment, along with Christo­pher Street, pres­i­dent gen­er­al of the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers, were present at the brief­ing.