Trade union members raise their voices during PoS march

Armed with plac­ards, pam­phlets, flags, ban­ners, blowhorns, snow cones and their voic­es, trade union mem­bers marched from Memo­r­i­al Park to Wood­ford Square in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, in a bid to pres­sure the Gov­ern­ment to con­clude long-stand­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions.

At the start of the march, Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Michael An­nisette de­scribed the event as a “spir­i­tu­al.”

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How­ev­er, as the pro­ces­sion moved along St Clair Av­enue and passed the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, the at­mos­phere ap­peared to take on a more an­ti-gov­ern­ment tone.