{"id":149783,"date":"2022-04-14T11:43:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=149783"},"modified":"2022-04-14T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:43:26","slug":"abwu-calls-on-government-to-pay-jolly-beach-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/abwu-calls-on-government-to-pay-jolly-beach-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"ABWU Calls on Government to Pay Jolly Beach Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Gaston Browne Administration has once again failed to prioritise the wellbeing of the former Jolly Beach Resort employees, who have been pleading for their outstanding severance for almost two years.<\/p>\n

In February, Prime Minster Gaston Browne, and Junior Finance Minister, Lennox Weston, made a commitment to settle the outstanding severance within eight weeks, by utilizing funds raised from an international bond.<\/p>

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The Antigua and Barbuda Workers\u2019 Union has since learnt that these monies have been secured by the government, although no formal communication has been made with the Union or the workers on when their severance monies will be paid to them.<\/p>

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The ABWU is hereby calling on the government to make good on its promise, and to end the prolonged period of suffering that hundreds of families attached to these workers, have been experiencing.<\/p>\n

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The government is fully aware that the special circumstances of the Jolly Beach workers have been grossly exacerbated by the astronomical increase in food and fuel prices over the last few months.<\/p>

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The deliberate withholding of monies that have been earned by hard working individuals, is an unconscionable assault on workers and the labour movement. For too long, this government has been trampling upon workers throughout the length and breadth of the island.<\/p>\n

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Hundreds of terminated LIAT employees are still owed millions of dollars in severance payments, even after the Gaston Browne Government deceitfully attempted to have these vulnerable workers forfeit their entire severance for a fraction of their entitlements.<\/p>

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In addition, the terminated employees of Caribbean Airport Services (CAS), a subsidiary of LIAT, have also been ignored by this uncaring government \u2013 a government which is forever absent when it comes to the wellbeing of the citizens who elected them to office.<\/p>

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We insist that this Government has a moral obligation to resolve these issues for its citizens. As we approach Labour Day, hundreds of workers in Antigua and Barbuda are choosing to stand in solidary against a government that has presided over, and participated in the pauperisation of thousands of workers, while at the same time violating their rights. Workers have No confidence in this government!<\/p>\n

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We deserve better.<\/p>\n

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