A VISIBLY UPSET Marcia Haynes (left) and Phyllis Grazette typified the emotions of the scores of now unemployed workers from the Ministry of the Environment’s Drainage Unit who turned up for a meeting at the National Union of Public Workers yesterday concerning their future.
Some of their former colleagues were not as composed though as they vociferously condemned their axing from jobs they held, in some cases, for as long as five years. In Haynes’ case, she was employed in Government for nearly 15 years.
After an almost two-hour long meeting at the union’s Dalkeith, St Michael headquarters, NUPW general secretary Dennis Clarke also lambasted the severing of the workers. He said given the way the terminations were done, the union now found itself with its “back against the wall”.
Here, Haynes and Grazette hold up a reference letter from the Ministry of Transport and Works dated August 7, 2013 stating that she was a Government employee since May 21, 1999.
