The issue of the completion of the collective labour agreement between Grenlec and workers associated with TAWU in the company appears taking a different turn.
Information has reached us that the Technical and Allied Workers Union (TAWU) were in discussion Thursday with its members at GRENLEC, claiming that the company is seemingly delaying talks on the completion of the Collective Labour Agreement.
REPORT:
The Union dispatched a release yesterday speaking of what it termed an “emergency meeting”.
The Union and the company have been meeting on the issue and have since arrived at a settlement in Mid-May relative to salary increases, following which the parties were to continue negotiations towards completing other amendments to the Labour agreement.
This, the Union is complaining has been a sore point, accusing the Company of delaying tactics.
It says the Union made proposal to meet on the 1st of June, but the Company spoke of their inability to meet that time, without an alternative date.
June 7 was proposed by the Union, failing which it threatened to take whatever action necessary, but the company counter-proposed and offered to meet Wednesday.
But when the parties met yesterday, the Company advised it was not yet in a position to engage in negotiations for amendments to the Collective Labour Agreement, since the Board of Directors did not yet meet to offer guidance.
TAWU deems it a deliberate attempt to delay the talks and called an urgent meeting with the GRENLEC workers Thursday, so as to decide the way forward.
Our roving reporter Maryam Tawfiq spoke with TAWU President General, Andre Lewis, when the meeting was over.
