TCL management and OWTU workers meet

Trinidad Cement Ltd’s (TCL) management and OWTU officers held talks this morning to discuss industrial-relations issues.

The private meeting was hosted at the OWTU’s headquarters, Circular Road in San Fernando.

The main issues to be discussed are redundancy and a 2014 memorandum of agreement (MOA) in which workers had agreed to give up a percentage of their earnings to ensure the company’s viability.

However, the union alleges that was a temporary measure, but the company was using the MOA as a guide for the redundancy/ retrenchment packages offered to workers.