THE CONGRESS of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) has condemned the recent threat made on the lives of National Union of Public Workers’ officials.
In a statement issued today, CTUSAB said it “denounces and deplores” the act which also included the delivery of a white powdery substance to the Union’s Dalkeith Road, St Michael headquarters. The substance has been identified as a pesticide.
“Coming on the heels of the industrial action taken by the Union in its dispute with the Barbados Investment Development Corporation (BIDC) over the retirement of thirteen employees at that institution, the Congress considers the attempt to intimidate and threaten union officials, as a flagrant attempt to stifle the leadership of the trade union movement.
“CTUSAB condemns this cowardly and criminal act which it views was intended to terrorise and derail the labour movement from exercising its democratic freedoms as provided under the constitution of Barbados,” the statement said.
The umbrella body went on to say that such an act should be deplored in all quarters of the Barbadian society.
It called on national leaders and heads of organisations and institutions to decry any similar acts that “can sully the good reputation Barbados enjoys as a peaceful and orderly society”. (PR/NB)
