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4 April, 2000Negotiations collapse between steel company and union in Trinidad and Tobago.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: The Steel Workers' Union of Trinidad and Tobago is in the third week of its strike at Caribbean Ispat Limited. The IMF's affiliate served strike notice to the company and called workers out for industrial action on March 20, 2000, when collective bargaining negotiations in all their bargaining units broke down.
Some of the disputed issues involve pension benefits, wages, cost-of-living allowance, a housing aid plan, and workers' medical benefits.
Caribbean Ispat Limited is the largest steel producer in the Caribbean region and an Ispat International company, which, besides Trinidad, has steelmaking operations in Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico and the United States. Ispat International is a member of the LNM Group, which has important operations for steel production in Indonesia and Kazakhstan.
Messages of solidarity with the workers at Caribbean Ispat Limited as well as the Steel Workers' Union of Trinidad and Tobago would certainly be appreciated and may be sent to the union's president, Lex Lovell, and general secretary, Wayne Roberts, on Fax: (1/868) 636-5696.
Some of the disputed issues involve pension benefits, wages, cost-of-living allowance, a housing aid plan, and workers' medical benefits.
Caribbean Ispat Limited is the largest steel producer in the Caribbean region and an Ispat International company, which, besides Trinidad, has steelmaking operations in Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico and the United States. Ispat International is a member of the LNM Group, which has important operations for steel production in Indonesia and Kazakhstan.
Messages of solidarity with the workers at Caribbean Ispat Limited as well as the Steel Workers' Union of Trinidad and Tobago would certainly be appreciated and may be sent to the union's president, Lex Lovell, and general secretary, Wayne Roberts, on Fax: (1/868) 636-5696.