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\u201cTake me to court.\u201d<\/p>

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That is what Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has told the union representing former LIAT workers in the neighboring island<\/p>\n

Browne told the Antigua and Barbuda Workers Union that he wants nothing to do with them where discussing 100% severance to ex-LIAT workers is concerned<\/p>

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He said the ABWU is unreasonable to ask Antigua to pay 100% when it only holds a mere 34 percent of shares in LIAT 1974 ltd.<\/p>

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But in a response to the prime minister, the general secretary of the Antigua and Barbuda Workers Union said Browne continues to \u201cbully and disgrace the unions and the workers into accepting, without any negotiation, an offer that is anything but compassionate\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe workers, by contrast, have been extraordinarily flexible with the shareholder governments on this matter. Do I need to remind you that it was the said workers who agreed in principle to your suggestion of a \u201chaircut\u201d on their entitlements in order to save the airline? But you, Mr. Gaston Browne, have since taken a unilateral approach as to how this settlement of terminal benefits is configured,\u201d Massiah said<\/p>

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Browne has offered a 50% compassionate payment offer in cash and bonds but Massiah said the compassionate offer should not and indeed does not represent the final and full claim of severance payments and other legitimate and legally-entitled terminal benefits of the employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is considered an interim partial payment of the employee\u2019s entitlements,\u201d he said,<\/p>

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Massiah said, as LIAT employees continue to suffer and cry out for the government of Antigua and Barbuda, as a lead shareholder of LIAT, to live up to its moral and legal obligations, the ABWU remains relentless in its pursuit of justice and meaningful dialogue on the matter of the employee\u2019s terminal benefits.<\/p>

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Last week, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said\u00a0her government will be dishing out $75,000 in cash to former LIAT workers.<\/p>\n

Mottley made the statement while she was wrapping up the debate on the 2023 Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals in the House of Assembly<\/p>\n

She said the latest decision is in keeping with a commitment from her government to honor about 89 former LIAT workers, paying almost $10 million in cash and bonds in severance.<\/p>\n

Prior to that undertaking, St Lucia\u2019s Prime Minister Phillip Jean Pierre also paid off the former LIAT workers in Castries.- DNO<\/p>\n

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\u201cTake me to court.\u201d That is what Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has told the union representing former LIAT workers in the neighboring island Browne told the Antigua and Barbuda Workers Union that he wants nothing to do with them where discussing 100% severance to ex-LIAT workers is concerned He said the ABWU […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nAntigua PM tells Union \u201ctake me to court\u201d over LIAT severance - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-pm-tells-union-take-me-to-court-over-liat-severance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Antigua PM tells Union \u201ctake me to court\u201d over LIAT severance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cTake me to court.\u201d That is what Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has told the union representing former LIAT workers in the neighboring island Browne told the Antigua and Barbuda Workers Union that he wants nothing to do with them where discussing 100% severance to ex-LIAT workers is concerned He said the ABWU […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-pm-tells-union-take-me-to-court-over-liat-severance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-20T11:29:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GASTON-1.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1365\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-pm-tells-union-take-me-to-court-over-liat-severance\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-pm-tells-union-take-me-to-court-over-liat-severance\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Antigua PM tells Union \u201ctake me to court\u201d over LIAT severance\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-20T11:29:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-20T11:29:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-pm-tells-union-take-me-to-court-over-liat-severance\/\"},\"wordCount\":401,\"commentCount\":15,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-pm-tells-union-take-me-to-court-over-liat-severance\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1620\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GASTON-1.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-pm-tells-union-take-me-to-court-over-liat-severance\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-pm-tells-union-take-me-to-court-over-liat-severance\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/antigua-pm-tells-union-take-me-to-court-over-liat-severance\/\",\"name\":\"Antigua PM tells Union \u201ctake me to court\u201d over LIAT severance - 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