No sense making air bridge essential service

THE EDITOR: I have heard Dr Eastlyn Mc Kenzie saying that the air bridge between Trinidad and Tobago, be declared an essential service. I am asking myself what purpose would it serve, the essential service laws are already a toothless bulldog. The BWIA dispute with the airline pilots many years ago, the then Minister of Labour got the laws to be amended to include aeroplanes.

I am aware of three world leaders who had the courage to demonstrate what essential service were meant to mean and they are now deceased. Ex-President Ronald Reagan of America who dismissed all the airline pilots, ex-President Charles De Gaulle who put troops on standby, and the coalminers were given an ultimatum on the resumption of work, and Edward Heat, former Prime Minister of England, who created history when the dock workers strike, he used emergency powers at his command, and he was congratulated in all the British newspapers for the unpopular stand he took.