Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of fail­ing to live up to its promis­es to work­ers.

In her mes­sage, Beck­les de­scribed Labour Day as a com­mem­o­ra­tion of “a defin­ing chap­ter in our na­tion­al sto­ry” and paid trib­ute to labour pi­o­neers whose strug­gles trans­formed the so­cial, po­lit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic land­scape of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

She al­so high­light­ed the con­tri­bu­tion of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) un­der the lead­er­ship of Dr Er­ic Williams, not­ing that the In­dus­tri­al Sta­bil­i­sa­tion Act of 1965 es­tab­lished a frame­work for col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing and in­dus­tri­al dis­pute res­o­lu­tion, in­clud­ing the cre­ation of the In­dus­tri­al Court.