Trade unions to stage major protest march in PoS today

The labour move­ment will go on with its ma­jor protest march in Port-of-Spain to­day, de­spite sev­er­al re­quests from se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers to post­pone it de­spite hav­ing sought ap­proval from the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er well in ad­vance.

This was re­vealed by Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Michael An­nisette yes­ter­day. He said union rep­re­sen­ta­tives, who met with po­lice on Wednes­day, re­ject­ed the post­pone­ment re­quest be­cause the demon­stra­tion had al­ready been de­layed twice. While he said he did not be­lieve there was po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence, An­nisette de­scribed the re­quest as un­rea­son­able.

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“I would have point­ed out to the se­nior of­fi­cer that it is un­fair, un­rea­son­able, harsh and op­pres­sive,” An­nisette said dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence at the SWW­TU Hall in Port-of-Spain