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TRADE UNIONS SHOULD PUT THEIR MEMBERSHIPS FIRST AND DESIST WITH THEIR SHAMEFUL POLITICAL AND RACIAL HATRED TOWARDS THE UNC GOVERNMENT Tomorrow a number of trade unions will betray common sense and join in protest against the UNC with the same PNM MPs who for TEN YEARS refused to pay salary increases, refused to pay backpay and insulted them with zero, zero, zero. They take this action against a UNC government who in eighteen months is already paying them their backpay, giving them updated salaries, offering them 10 percent increases and passing labour legislation to protect their membership. For ten years these unions refused to protest against the PNM government for their salary increases and backpay, instead they received small tins of biscuits, threats of losing their jobs if they wanted salary increases or backpay and ridicule that they ain’t riot yet. Every time there is a non PNM government or East Indian Prime Minister in office the unions wake up after sleeping through the PNMs time in government. The joke that Trinidad is not a real place will become reality when we see the same persons who exploited and humiliated workers for ten years, Imbert, Dhanpaul, Beckles, Young and Al Rawi walk hand in hand with the same union leaders who just eighteen months ago they treated with disdain. Hopefully the PNM MPs will address the protest and explain their insulting actions over the last ten years towards workers. Sadly, no matter what the UNC government does for some trade unions, it will never be enough. It is clear that the protest tomorrow by these unions and the PNM is driven by racial and political hatred of the UNC and not by actual efforts to get benefits for their members. Given the recent comments of the PNM MPs invoking hatred towards UNC members, I encourage all law abiding citizens including UNC supporters to avoid the proposed protest route and POS altogether if you can tomorrow. These protesters are not driven by rational thought, they are driven by racial and political hatred of the UNC and may attempt to provoke you and the TTPS into a violent confrontation. The PNM and their supporting unions leaders have betrayed the workers of our country. Let them have their day tomorrow to make fools of themselves. The law abiding hardworking citizens of Trinidad and Tobago who see right through this protest charade will continue to prosper under the UNC. May god bless you all. 💛