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Dear Editor: Idi is right, T&T must do more to support overworked nurses in this perilous time
“[…] What many forget, what the mainstream media does not highlight, what the ‘jacket and tie’ crowd in the media briefings does not mention is this: that these front-line workers, exposed daily to the virus, leave to go home to their families exhausted after double-shifts sometimes.
“Let us remember the level of trauma they are experiencing constantly…”
The following guest column from Rae Samuel of the National Workers Union (NWU) supports Trinidad and Tobago Registered Nurses Association (TTRNA) head Idi Stuart’s call for more support for local nurses, as they grapple with the Covid-19 virus:
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National Workers Union general secretary Felix Anthony in Suva. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA/FILE
The State will continue to pursue the malicious acts under the Public Order Act charge laid against National Workers Union general secretary Felix Anthony.
The matter was called before Magistrate Waleen George for prosecution to review evidence in the case which is related to “false news” on the expiry of Water Authority of Fiji’s workers’ contracts.
A hearing date will be determined when the case is called on November 8.
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THE National Workers Union (NWU) is not pleased by the actions taken by certain employers against their employees singling out the security services sector and St Jude Hospital.
“The NWU is extremely concerned about some of the industrial behavior being exhibited by certain employers within the Security Services Sector,” noted the union’s President-General Tyrone Maynard.
Maynard said that the NWU is adamant that the coronavirus pandemic, cannot be held responsible for what he described as “those industrial atrocities that were being committed before the start of the pandemic and are taking place currently.”