Work­ers from Trin­mar and those em­ployed by a Brazil­ian con­trac­tor work­ing on the Solomon Ho­choy High­way ex­ten­sion are ex­pect­ed to down tools to­day in protest against their re­spec­tive em­ploy­ers.The Oil­fields Work­ers' Trade Union an­nounced yes­ter­day the work­ers were ex­pect­ed to con­verge at sep­a­rate lo­ca­tions in Point Fortin.

The meet­ing with Trin­mar's work­ers is card­ed for 7 am at the OW­TU Branch Hall, New­lands, while OAS work­ers are sched­uled to meet an hour lat­er at the Guapo Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, Main Road, Gon­za­les Vil­lage.

The oil work­ers of the Trin­mar branch are tak­ing the ac­tion "in re­sponse to re­cent at­tacks by Petrotrin's man­age­ment and con­tin­ued vi­o­la­tions of the col­lec­tive agree­ment, work­ers will hold a mass meet­ing to dis­cuss these crit­i­cal mat­ters and the way for­ward," the union said. It is ex­pect­ed OW­TU mem­bers from oth­er branch­es will be part of the meet­ing.The high­way work­ers say they are fed up with the bull­doz­ing of their homes and non-pay­ment by the state, as well as the lim­it­ed job op­por­tu­ni­ties, con­trary to what was promised.