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Monday, July 21, 2025

Roget calls out NP on vacancies

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2783 days ago
20171208

An­na-Lisa Paul

The Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU) has is­sued a warn­ing to gov­ern­ment to re­frain from send­ing pub­lic ser­vants home or there will be "hell to pay in T&T".

Ad­dress­ing work­ers at an ear­ly-morn­ing meet­ing out­side Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um (NP) in Sea Lots yes­ter­day, OW­TU Pres­i­dent An­cel Ro­get promised to seek a meet­ing with the se­nior man­age­ment team to dis­cuss the num­ber of va­can­cies ex­ist­ing with­in the com­pa­ny.

He ac­cused Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert and the rest of the Cab­i­net of turn­ing their backs on work­ers.

Ro­get said NP had re­sist­ed fill­ing the va­can­cies be­cause they had em­barked on a cal­cu­lat­ed plan to re­trench work­ers.

He claimed this move had placed the work­ers' pen­sion plan at risk, cou­pled with the in­creased hir­ing of con­tract work­ers to per­form haulage du­ties.

Ro­get said cur­rent­ly, 80 per cent of the work­ers per­form­ing this func­tion had been em­ployed on a con­trac­tu­al ba­sis as the com­pa­ny had ef­fec­tive­ly re­duced the num­ber of per­ma­nent work­ers in this area.

Vow­ing not to rest un­til the jobs of the work­ers were se­cured, Ro­get promised, "We are pre­pared to take ac­tion that will see this place shut­ting down in the in­ter­est of the work­ers of T&T."

Ro­get pre­dict­ed that at the start of the year, "We will see an avalanche of work­ers be­ing sent home."

How­ev­er, he said the OW­TU did not in­tend to stand by and let this hap­pen as the on­ly way out of this cri­sis was to grow all sec­tors of the econ­o­my and this could not be done if work­ers were be­ing dis­missed.


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