The break­away fac­tion of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) is call­ing for Wat­son Duke to be jailed.Sev­er­al of its mem­bers said he was a dis­grace to the trade union move­ment. Rosan­na Robin­son, who was in­stalled as pres­i­dent af­ter a con­tro­ver­sy a few months ago, said Duke had been banned from of­fice since Sep­tem­ber 14.She and sev­er­al PSA mem­bers at­tend­ed yes­ter­day's protest by the joint trade union move­ment. Robin­son said they at­tend­ed to sup­port the ini­tia­tives of the labour move­ment.

She said she and her ex­ec­u­tive were be­ing de­barred from car­ry­ing out their le­git­i­mate func­tions.Robin­son said the new ex­ec­u­tive had ac­quired its own of­fice which would be launched next week.She spoke with re­porters at the Bri­an Lara Prom­e­nade af­ter the protest in Port-of-Spain.Robin­son said: "We want to tell per­sons do not be in­tim­i­dat­ed by this gen­tle­man (Duke) and his co­horts at 89 Aber­crom­by Street."You have your con­sti­tu­tion­al right and it must nev­er be in­fringed on at any point in time."

She said the con­tro­ver­sy start­ed be­cause of the five per cent of­fer which Duke had protest­ed against for months.She re­called Duke's in­fa­mous words "un­grate­ful­ness is worse than witch­craft" at a march ear­li­er this year, say­ing it was iron­ic that he la­belled the unions "di­nosaurs" af­ter show­ing sup­port dur­ing the PSA's strug­gles.With sup­port from oth­ers, clad in PSA T-shirts, a man said: "Mr Duke does not speak for the PSA."This woman (Robin­son) does and we will be mov­ing strong­ly to re­move him from 89 Aber­crom­by Street come next week."He does not speak for the PSA. He has been dis­missed. We are go­ing to be call­ing on pub­lic of­fi­cers to hit the streets to get rid of Mr Duke."He took our $4 mil­lion and we don't know what is go­ing on with it and we want to see Mr Duke be­hind bars."