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Wednesday, 11 June 2008
More than 200 workers at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will hear on Wednesday whether they will lose their jobs.
The controversial plan to lay off scores of employees is high on the agenda of a meeting scheduled for 10 Wednesday morning with the JUTC's management and trade union officials.
The meeting was arranged following strike action by workers last Friday and Saturday.
They returned to work after the decision was made to put on hold plans to lay off 236 workers.
Vice President of the University and Allied Workers Union, Clifton Grant, said it is expected that the JUTC will indicate whether the employees will be allowed to keep their jobs.
"We are going back to the meeting with an opened mind because we want to know from the company whether they are going to take back the workers. The information they gave to us is that they are converting a number of the units into single operator units which means that they don't want any conductors to work on those buses. So it wouldn't make sense they lay off the workers what they should do is pay off the workers," said Mr. Grant.
He said the meeting will also discuss the vexing issue of the non-payment of millions of dollars in deductions from the workers' salaries.
More than 200 workers at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will hear on Wednesday whether they will lose their jobs.
The controversial plan to lay off scores of employees is high on the agenda of a meeting scheduled for 10 Wednesday morning with the JUTC's management and trade union officials.
The meeting was arranged following strike action by workers last Friday and Saturday.
They returned to work after the decision was made to put on hold plans to lay off 236 workers.
Vice President of the University and Allied Workers Union, Clifton Grant, said it is expected that the JUTC will indicate whether the employees will be allowed to keep their jobs.
"We are going back to the meeting with an opened mind because we want to know from the company whether they are going to take back the workers. The information they gave to us is that they are converting a number of the units into single operator units which means that they don't want any conductors to work on those buses. So it wouldn't make sense they lay off the workers what they should do is pay off the workers," said Mr. Grant.
He said the meeting will also discuss the vexing issue of the non-payment of millions of dollars in deductions from the workers' salaries.
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