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The labour movement is mourning the passing of Clifton Simpson, the First Deputy President General of the National Union of Government and Federated Workers (NUGFW), who died yesterday at the Scarborough General Hospital in Tobago.
Simpson, a long-serving trade unionist, was widely respected for his steady leadership style and his commitment to improving the working conditions of daily-rated and monthly-rated government employees.
He spent decades in the labour struggle, he advocated tirelessly for better working conditions, social protection, and fair collective bargaining agreements. According to union literature, he frequently emphasised the necessity of “a strong labour movement as the backbone of social progress.”
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