MORE?THAN?100 HOME HELPERS of the National Assistance Board (NAB) stayed off the job yesterday, protesting the board’s refusal to promote one of their long-standing colleagues to supervisory level.
The disgruntled workers, who marched and sang freedom songs outside the NAB offices at Country Road, St Michael, have pledged to continue their protest action unless Enid Maynard, a 30-year veteran with the Home Help division, is appointed to one of three vacant team leader posts.
“We will keep doing what we have to do. It’s not just about Miss Maynard, but all Home Help workers,” Wayne Waldron, senior industrial officer with the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), said yesterday as he addressed the workers.
Waldron described as ridiculous the NAB’s requirement that a team leader should at least possess four CXC certificates in order to qualify for the job.
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