The labour move­ment will al­ways be part of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship. This was the view ex­pressed by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar through her ad­dress on Labour Day. "This means that as we gov­ern, the greater good must nev­er be sac­ri­ficed for po­lit­i­cal ex­pe­di­en­cy or par­ti­san­ship," she said. "Even in the midst of chal­lenges, Labour is and will al­ways be a part­ner to this Gov­ern­ment."

She al­so said her gov­ern­ment took pride in hav­ing Er­rol McLoud as Labour Min­is­ter as this demon­strat­ed their pro-labour gov­ern­ment stance. Per­sad-Bisses­sar added that yes­ter­day was a spe­cial Labour Day as it came "at a time when there is much in­ter­est in the re­la­tion­ship with our pro-labour gov­ern­ment, one which for the first time in po­lit­i­cal his­to­ry has a stal­wart of work­ers, a for­mer pres­i­dent gen­er­al of the OW­TU, the Ho­n­ourable Er­rol McLeod as the na­tion's Labour Min­is­ter."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so said she was proud of the Gov­ern­ment's ef­forts in ef­fec­tive­ly man­ag­ing labour is­sues over the last two years. She took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to give work­ers the as­sur­ance that their needs would be tak­en care of. "Your Gov­ern­ment to­day reaf­firms its pledge to pro­tect the rights, en­hance the ben­e­fits and im­prove the com­fort of work­ers," the PM said, "We must, how­ev­er, gov­ern fair­ly and re­spon­si­bly in the in­ter­est of the en­tire na­tion."