Workers at the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) have left their posts at the utility’s Cassada Gardens compound in protest over working conditions and other grievances, and are moving toward the organisation’s headquarters.
The group, accompanied by officials from the Antigua and Barbuda Trades and Labour Union, was observed travelling along Old Parham Road at about 8:30 a.m.
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I wish these workers well.
I hope they are not sold out by their Bargaining Agent, but I am not holding my breath.
I hope the workers will advise the reading public as to how the matter was dealt with and if they are satisfied (after whatever).
Just another day in a powerhouse nation.
When will the prostitutes stop liming and lining parts of St. John’s for better pay and working conditions?
And we spending money on sound system which by any stroke of the imagination, cannot be more important than workers working conditions and other things. Their bargaining unit is the ATLU and so this action cannot be deemed as political. Our priorities always seem to be lopsided. We only care about winning elections and after that is the same old nonsense..
Most useless organisation in Antigua. APUA should be sold to a foreign investor. Antigua is woefully inept and unable to run the utility company. They can provide either water or electricity 24/7 for 365 days a year. They are all a bad joke. Let a foreign company run the operations. At least it will be done better than we have
Good for you the workers of APUA.Stand up for your darn rights.Never give up your rights.Antigua is falling apart at its seams.The Government finds the money to invest in music instruments.Take those DAMN MONIES and clean the buildings owned by the Government.Gaston Browne,where are your priorities?
@Anansi, so foreign is always better, right? And then we wonder why our nationals keep getting the short end of the stick. Why not value and support our own? Sick and tired of the foreign ‘love affair’.🙄
@anansi: don’t agree with you APUA should be sold, but that we get outside help to reform and rebuild APUA into an efficient utility company, the present electricity manager and others won’t do, the PLM tried that when they separated utility from public works and formed this statutory corporations called APUA. I myself participated in marches like this to town over 30 years ago, and even worst situation where old V.C Bird gave the orders for the defense force to shoot any linesman standing near any pole after 6 pm in the evening, because power was constantly interrupted due to lack of engine maintenance, and they wanted to give the impression that it was sabotage just like they are doing with the water crisis today, history have a way of repeating itself, the world is a cycle. Would you believe that APUA don’t have any define standard up to this day? It is even an anomaly for APUA to be the provider of electricity and inspection of houses for Electrical installation, that should be done by the DCA to clear the APUA from trumping up obstacle as consumer fault during claims query of damage appliances, yes there is no standard as even measurements and staking sheet data, the latter is in its infancy from since the days I came back to antigua and was pushing for staking sheet data and measurements.
But back to the protest , it will end as it always does with charismatic speeches and promises, and phone call to some workers in the protest of promises to make them feel validated and betray the support of the cause of the protest for incentives and better work condition.
APUA need to advanceyes, the last thing I the former chairman polly potter who saw the wisdom are benefits was pushing for hotline work to stop the power interruptions, it was opposed tooth and nail by the entitled cliques within the APUA, and what have they offered the country today under there watch? nothing but a continued struggling APUA with customers complaining, yes they gave themselves entitlement and promotion and titles and the country suffer the same, APUA need to modernize.
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