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Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 25 Port of Port-of-Spain work­ers who downed tools last week have re­turned to work. The mat­ter was tem­porar­i­ly re­solved af­ter dis­cus­sions with Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al Michael An­nisette, who al­so serves as chair­man of Port and Mar­itime Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (PM­SL), the com­pa­ny to which the work­ers are con­tract­ed.

An­nisette con­firmed that 22 to 26 PM­SL em­ploy­ees were sus­pend­ed pend­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion for not re­port­ing for du­ty last Fri­day. How­ev­er, he stressed no one had been ter­mi­nat­ed and full op­er­a­tions re­sumed by Tues­day.

He at­trib­uted the un­rest to deep-seat­ed frus­tra­tions over stag­nant wages and poor work­ing con­di­tions, which the work­ers de­scribed as “in­hu­mane.”