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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Ancel declares war on Mc Leod

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The on­ly thing miss­ing from yes­ter­day's Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad was a bobolee of Labour Min­is­ter Er­rol Mc Leod, as OW­TU pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get ripped in­to his for­mer leader dur­ing yes­ter­day's ral­ly.Af­ter Joint Trade Union Move­ment pres­i­dent Vin­cent Cabr­era pledged sup­port for Ro­get af­ter a se­ries of crit­i­cism by Mc Leod, Ro­get de­clared an all-out war against Mc Leod."I want to say cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly for the records, that Er­rol K Mc Leod drew the first blood, he has crossed the line," Ro­get said.

Ad­dress­ing the hun­dreds at Char­lie King Junc­tion, a place where he once walked hand in hand with Mc Leod, Ro­get said, "It is one thing when a dis­cred­it­ed Prime Min­is­ter and Gov­ern­ment say what they have to say, that is okay."How­ev­er, it is a whole dif­fer­ent sto­ry when one of our own–who was sent on a clear and spe­cif­ic mis­sion–de­sert­ed that mis­sion and de­fect­ed to en­e­my ter­ri­to­ry. That is the most un­pro­voked at­tack by the PP Gov­ern­ment."You see, com­rade, he went on a UNC plat­form and launched this un­pro­voked at­tack on the Oil­fields Work­ers' Trade Union and on the labour move­ment. He has de­fect­ed, he has turned his back on the labour move­ment, he has gone down in the mud. Well, if you choose to go down in UNC mud to hide, well to­day we are com­ing down there to get you."

Dur­ing the PP's an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tion last month, Mc Leod boast­ed that the Gov­ern­ment had set­tled more than 70 col­lec­tive agree­ments. Ro­get ques­tioned Mc Leod's fig­ures, say­ing that each time he boast­ed, the fig­ures changed.Ro­get said Mc Leod should not boast of set­tling agree­ments when it was he who rec­om­mend­ed that T&TEC em­ploy­ees set­tle for the Gov­ern­ment's five per cent wage cap."This Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship did not give work­ers any­thing, work­ers fought for it for them­selves," Ro­get said.

Ro­get said Mc Leod, as a for­mer trade union leader, said noth­ing when teach­ing as­sis­tants, URP work­ers and gov­ern­ment con­tract work­ers were re­moved be­cause they were per­ceived to be PNM.Since en­ter­ing Gov­ern­ment, he said, Mc Leod has al­so for­got­ten the Work­er's Agen­da and the ILO con­ven­tion, while noth­ing was done to im­prove the Work­men's Com­pen­sa­tions Act and the Re­trench­ment and Sev­er­ance Ben­e­fits Act."He is no longer the Min­is­ter of Labour, but the Min­is­ter against Labour," Ro­get said.


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