Expedite compensation for former NCC workers
BWU General Secretary Toni Moore addresses the media, while Assistant General Secretary Orlando ’Gabby’ Scott pays close attention.
By:
Jenique Belgrave
Pay them soon!
Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) General Secretary, Toni Moore, is urging government to ensure that those National Conservation Commission (NCC) workers unfairly dismissed during the retrenchment programme get the monies owed to them by the end of next month.
Speaking to the media yesterday at the Solidarity House Headquarters, she said that in meeting with the NCC last week Tuesday, the quantum owed to each former worker represented by the BWU was verified, and the proposal was put forward to have these paid in full by September end as, according to her, this was more than enough time to have any issues that may crop up worked through.
“I think that it is at least in the interest of the Ministry of Finance and the NCC to expedite that matter, especially considering that the particular body of workers have already suffered enough disrespect, and the final straw was in hearing that they have won when in fact they have still lost, because they are still out of employment today. So I don’t think that further injury should be done and that those workers will get every cent of what they are due and that the money should come in the shortest possible time,” she insisted.
At the time, Moore was hosting a press conference updating the press on the union’s upcoming 75th Annual Delegates Conference, which will be held over the weekend and has the theme ‘Clear Focus, Renewed Drive’.
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