Raphael John-Lall

Af­ter al­most de­stroy­ing the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT), the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) is hap­py to see Rober­to Pe­on re­sign as CEO of TSTT, John Julien, Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Union (CWU) said on Fri­day. Pe­on ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion last week with three months no­tice af­ter hav­ing served as CEO of TSTT for the past five years.

"We held a meet­ing with him this morn­ing and we gave a round of ap­plause for his de­ci­sion to go. We be­lieved he mis­man­aged the com­pa­ny and that he should go now. We are call­ing for an au­dit of the TSTT's fi­nances to see what he will be leav­ing be­hind. The fi­nan­cial year of TSTT runs from April to March," Julien told the Guardian.

He al­so said there are oth­er top ex­ec­u­tives who should al­so ten­der their res­ig­na­tion and these in­clude the chief fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer, the vice pres­i­dent of hu­man re­sources and ad­min­is­tra­tion and the com­pa­ny's ex­ec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent, TSTT. "These oth­er ex­ec­u­tives should go with Pe­on. They do not de­serve to be here," he said. He claims that based on in­for­ma­tion he has that Goswa­mi will be the next CEO of TSTT.

"Our in­for­ma­tion is that Goswa­mi will be the next CEO. But we will con­tin­ue to state that he should go. He is very close to the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship Gov­ern­ment. Noth­ing is go­ing to change un­der Goswa­mi as CEO. When our union ex­ec­u­tive took of­fice in 2008, TSTT's prof­its were much high­er. There has been a dras­tic re­duc­tion of its per­for­mance un­der Pe­on and Goswa­mi," he said.

Julien would like to see a new CEO who un­der­stands hu­man re­source re­la­tions. "We want to see a new CEO who has a strong back­ground in telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and who un­der­stands hu­man re­source man­age­ment. Our union ex­ec­u­tive on­ly met with Pe­on three times. That shows the type of per­son he is," he said.