News

Antigua. General Secretary David Massiah is putting the bank on notice that it will not be allowed to get rid of workers without facing the wrath of the union.

“We have heard word on the ground that that is going to happen here. So what we did, most of us, we have galvanised ourselves together. We have put ourselves together and we are resolute in what we have said, clearly, that we will take a strong stand against FirstCaribbean.”

Massiah was up in arms after FirstCaribbean in St Lucia made three of its workers redundant on Friday, causing workers at three of the island’s branches to stage industrial action.

According to news out of St Lucia, FirstCaribbean International called the union into a meeting Tuesday and Friday of last week and said that it intended to make a few positions within the bank redundant. The union informed them that that would be in contravention of their own rules, which state that the bank has to provide 50 days notice before it could make any position redundant. The union also pointed out that anything to do with staff positions and dismissals or making staff redundant would have to be done on a regional basis.

Complete article can be read: Antigua Observer.com

Contact: joanne.defreitas@uniglobalunion.org