{"id":164961,"date":"2022-12-12T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=164961"},"modified":"2022-12-12T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:30:25","slug":"union-wants-all-regional-governments-to-help-in-rescuing-liat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/union-wants-all-regional-governments-to-help-in-rescuing-liat\/","title":{"rendered":"Union wants all regional governments to help in rescuing LIAT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The General Secretary of the Antigua and Barbuda Workers\u2019 Union (ABWU), David Massiah, has called on the Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments to seriously get involved in the efforts to rescue the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT (1974) Limited following its collapse in 2020.<\/p>

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\u201cAll the governments in the Caribbean are hypocritical and they are bastardising the process with the LIAT workers.<\/p>\n

They should all sit together and come up with one plan to govern all the workers throughout LIAT and so we could get LIAT, the regional airline back in the air,\u201d said Massiah, who also indicated that he had written to Prime Minister Gaston Browne last week and was still awaiting a response.<\/p>

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The airline was forced to end its operations and lay off its staff in March 2020 after the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic exacerbated its finances.<\/p>

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Last year, the Antigua & Barbuda government offered two million EC dollars to partially satisfy the cash component of the compassionate payout to former LIAT workers in Antigua.<\/p>\n

In August, Dominica\u2019s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said he wanted a \u201chumanitarian\u2019 resolution to settle the ongoing pay dispute and last month, the St Lucia government said former LIAT workers there would soon receive their outstanding termination benefits.<\/p>

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The government said EC$4.4 million in outstanding benefits will be paid to the former workers.<\/p>\n

SOURCE: CMC<\/strong><\/p>

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