Dominica union seeks CARICOM support on severance packages for soon to be retrenched LIME workers
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Dominica union seeks CARICOM support on severance packages for soon to be retrenched LIME workers

By TDN Wire Staff
January 8, 2014 3:50 P.M



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DPSU eneral Secretary Thomas Letang.
Roseau, Dominica (TDN) -- Thomas Letang general secretary of the Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) have revealed his intention to seek Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments’ support for assistance in its industrial impasse with the telecommunications company, LIME.

Negotiations between the Union and LIME reportedly broke down recently after the two parties failed to reach agreement on severance packages for several LIME workers.

The two sides have been involved in prolonged negotiations after LIME revealed that it was prepared to retrench a number of its workforce as it prepares to outsource several of its services.

LIME has said publicly that it will focus solely on its mobile services in the Caribbean region while it outsources all its other services including telephone and cable.

Letang acknowledged that several other Caribbean countries were experiencing the same issue and that’s why he was anxious to get the involvement of CARICOM.

“We are at a juncture where we have to do something about the situation,” Letang said. He also revealed that the union had written to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit about the situation and was expecting him to take it to his CARICOM colleagues.

Letang however expressed concern that given the pace at which the retrenchment effort was moving forward there “may not be enough time to have CARICOM intervene.”

He therefore cautioned that his union may have to embark on industrial action to get LIME back to the negotiating table.

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