Joint chambers committed to Tripartite process

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has also urged the trade union organisations to return to the NTAC even as they called for a meeting with him to discuss an MOU which he had signed with them prior to the 2015 general election. A statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister last Friday said the tripartite approach was the “most meaningful forum to address the myriad challenges which all parties must face as we seek to overcome and survive the current economic crisis to which we have been exposed since 2015 and which is very likely to remain a factor in our circumstances well into the medium term.” In early March, the country’s umbrella trade union bodies suspended their participation in NTAC and cited government’s decision to dissolve the Tourism Development Company as “no consultation was held with the Communications Workers Union” on the decision to dissolve the company.

The labour organisations were the National Trade Union Centre; the Federation of Independent Trade Unions and NGO’s and the Joint Trade Union Movement.