$2.6 billion to close Petrotrin refinery
Severance packages for retrenched Petrotrin workers are expected to cost the State in the region of $2.6 billion. Finance Minister Colm Imbert made the announcement based on initial estimates ...
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Petrotrin rejects Union plan; refinery operations cease November 30
Despite the best efforts by the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) to save the Petrotrin refinery from a looming shutdown, the facility’s operations are expected to cease on November 30. The ann...
Espinet sorry for numbers mix-up: 4700 Petrotrin workers to be axed
Petrotrin Chairman Wilfred Espinet has taken full responsibility for the confusion in the public domain over the actual number of workers to be sent home in the closure of the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery...
Khan: 4700 employees to be affected by Petrotrin refinery closure
The Oilfields Workers Trade Union (OWTU) and the Board of Petrotrin are expected to meet on Tuesday to discuss termination packages for workers affected by the decision to close the Pointe-a-Pier...
Labour Minister: ‘No comment’ on Petrotrin matter
Minister of Labour, Jennifer Baptiste-Primus has no comment to make on the plight of workers affected by the decision to close Petrotrin’s Pointe-a-Pierre refinery. Baptiste-Primus made her positio...
UTT implements severance programme
The implementation of severance packages for recently retrenched lecturers from the Corinth and Valsayn Campuses of the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) has begun. Over 300 academic and non-...
Court of Appeal rules in favour of TDC workers
The Court of Appeal has upheld an injunction in favour of employees of the Tourism Development Company (TDC). TDC employee Greg Cumbermack told Power 102 that the Court upheld the injunction, as it...
Union: Ex-Caroni workers still awaiting compensation after 14 years
Ex-Caroni workers are dying awaiting their just dues. That’s according to President General of the All Trinidad General Workers Trade Union and Political Leader of the National Solidarity Assembly,...