{"id":143148,"date":"2021-12-10T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=143148"},"modified":"2021-12-10T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:01:03","slug":"letter-save-our-souls-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-save-our-souls-help\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Save Our Souls! HELP!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am appealing to the GOVERNMENT to intervene NOW!<\/p>

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Who thrive in what we call “Tourism”?<\/p>\n

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The hotel owners, managers and the union bodies that take the last bit of change from our pockets and still can’t even fight for the REAL workers…<\/p>\n

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A simple restaurant\/cookshop can pay staff at-least $100 daily.. and even the largest hotel company on island (ELITE ISLAND RESORT) pays a mere $9.50 per hour to EVERYONE ACROSS THE BOARD!(with the exception of supervisors and managers).<\/p>

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After an 8 hour shift, you go home with $76ECD and deductions have to be taken from that… How can it make sense? Then there’s this “SERVICE CHARGE” that is always excessively low even at CHRISTMAS when the rates are ever so high… The daily rates have doubled and tripled, the amount of persons has also doubled and still the service charge is yet the same…<\/p>\n

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The government need to get auditors to honestly go into these hotels and check every nook and cranny to find all breaches of payment not just to the staff and what they’re owed but also taxes that have been deviated from the people of Antigua and Barbuda…<\/p>\n

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It’s ever so weird that the owners find themselves in the accounts department when payroll is being conducted…<\/p>\n

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The government needs to put a special minimum wage when it comes to this hotel industry because the extortion is above and beyond on the people of Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n

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This is a cry and a plea for help.. SAVE OUR SOULS! MAJORITY OF OUR MERE EARNINGS LEGIT GO BACK INTO TRAVELLING EXPENSES JUST TO GET TO “HELL”!<\/p>\n

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THE GOVERNMENT MUST ACT NOW AND SWIFTLY TO STOP THIS INJUSTICE… PLEASE!!<\/p>\n

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MR GASTON BROWNE, MR MAX FERNANDEZ ACT NOW PLEASE!!<\/p>\n

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HELP US!<\/p>\n

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