Public Transport: Trade Unionists are Threatening a Strike on May 1

Ashok Subron, spokesman Rezistans ek Alternativ Joint Negotiating Panel and (JNP) unions in the sugar industry, think seriously asking workers to hold a vote on their workplace to decide what to do in case the Minister of Labour, Shakeel Mohamed, would actually forward with its two amendments to labor laws, the Employment Relations Act and the Employment Rights Act.  

Trade unionists also brandished on this occasion the threat of a strike in the transport sector on May 1, if these amendments are voted. They believe, in particular, that these amendments may affect the right of workers to strike.These amendments should be debated in the National Assembly Parliament resumes on Tuesday 26 March.  

This peaceful march began at Bell Village and ended at the Garden of the Company. A letter to the union demands was then submitted to the Office of the Prime Minister.  

According to Ashok Surbon "if Shakeel Mohamed is vote these amendments, there will be a revolt in this country."He also sent the ball into the camp Navin Ramgoolam asking him to "take responsibility" if these amendments are actually voted. He also urged the crowd to know their strength because "the real power is in our hands."

It's a good crowd (especially for this kind of event association) who made the trip to the march organized by the General Workers Federation and JNP. Workers and union members in the transport sector, nurses, civil servants, representatives of Rezistans ek Alternativ and members of the platform against the CT Power Project participated in the march. They claimed, among other things, the resignation of the Minister Shakeel Mohamed.