STAYING AWAY: LIAT trade unions boycott job cuts talks

In a letter to the airline that was faxed to the media, Grenadian trade unionist Senator Chester Humphrey, who chairs the group of ten unions in LIAT’s network, said unions would not be discussing “the mass termination of LIAT employees as an isolated matter. 

“Attending the proposed meeting in Antigua … diminishes the role and co-equal status of our trade unions with management and is inconsistent with building genuine partnership on the principles of genuine social dialogue,” the letter continued