Leadership – not boycott – is needed

It is now spreading like an epidemic and Ancel Roget seems to have caught the same disease, which we can dub “The lack of proper leadership syndrome”.

Roget’s call to boycott about 120 businesses from the “one percent” is sad and shows his inability to lead and to understand what is really needed now for our declining economy and the future of labour.

The potential disruption on the thousands of people who depend on their weekly and monthly wages from these businesses to help them make ends meet for their families will be mind boggling.

Roget did not even consider the effect such a boycott will have on the minimum wage workers who depend on their precious jobs for their livelihoods.

Why is Roget seriously peddling this senseless and ill-conceived message to the labour movement? A boycott could never help this country or these workers or even the trade unions.

What the country needs now more than ever is strong leadership to unite and support business owners and employees to prevent further decline as we go through this economic downturn.

We all, as employers and employees, have to face this crisis head-on and support each other.

Neil Gosine via email