One local trade unionist has joined the call for the immediate resignation of the current management of LIAT.
General Secretary of the Antigua and Barbuda Workers Union David Massiah made the plea during the Trade Union Congress on Labour Day.
“The entire management has to go because if the shareholder government continue to give money to LIAT but yet still, every day that money goes in, all you hear is they calling workers to make sacrifices to take a pay cut and at the end of the day, the management continues to basically to sit pretty” he said.
Making reference to the fire that destroyed LIAT’s hanger and other essential Massiah says inadequate management and the lack of backed up information has rendered the company unable to return the aircraft to its lessors.
“What that meant is that a number of planes of LIAT could not be sent back to their lessors because they did not have information on the aircraft.”
The ABWU boss says past board members must accept responsibility for the present state of LIAT.
“Some of our shareholders and representatives of the board of Antigua and Barbuda a number of them who sit over the years need to be held accountable because they help put us in the raft as well, I am not talking about today but over the years.”
Grenada recently became the fifth shareholder government of LIAT.
St Kitts and Nevis recently contributed EC$ 1 million to LIAT.
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Where was David Massiah and the ABWU on Labour Day? Was Lovell absent? What about Baldwin Spencer the grassroots trade unionist?
I totally agree. Some of these management and board members are there just for the salary and to look good. LIAT needs a team of management that can turn around the company and makes it profitable. Sometimes it is not those with master and PhD educations are fit to be management…Sometimes.
Since he is not talking about now he is referring to the time when the UPP was in power and allowed Barbados to become the majority shareholder. Because surely he cannot refer to the brilliant representatives we have on the board today in the persons of Sir Robin and brilliant Lennox Weston.
Give him a break. Remember we had the WORST Finance Minister (to date) who also let Sandals hoodwink him into holding on to some of our ABST.
Right now it is about doing what is needed to save LIAT from going under. Past mistakes was made, so now let make it right. If it is to get rid of the management and board members let it be.
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