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Rowley, OWTU clash over money paid to Petrotrin workers

 
sgtdjones 2019-07-12 03:37:53 

Rowley, OWTU clash over money paid to Petrotrin workers


While Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said that an av­er­age of $.5 mil­lion was paid as sev­er­ance to each Petrotrin work­er when the com­pa­ny was shut down, the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has ac­cused him of dis­tort­ing fig­ures.

But in re­sponse yes­ter­day, OW­TU chief ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cer Ozzi War­wick said the Row­ley has again shown his dis­con­nect from re­al­i­ty

“The Prime Min­is­ter did not men­tion that 3,000 tem­po­rary and ca­su­al work­ers got ab­solute­ly noth­ing. The Prime Min­is­ter did not men­tion that none of the sport club work­ers got noth­ing at all. He seems very un­con­cern that the young work­ers, who were now start­ing their fam­i­lies, who had mort­gages and loans, got next to noth­ing. So much so that their ve­hi­cles are be­ing re­pos­sessed, some have had to seek help to save their homes and many of them have not got any job for all these months,” War­wick said.

He added that be­cause the gov­ern­ment failed to ho­n­our pay­ment to Petrotrin’s trustee, the bank is threat­en­ing to shut down the pen­sion plan.


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Rowley sounds like bobolee Imam and bravos ..cant do math.

 
sgtdjones 2019-07-12 03:42:26 

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What is the TOTAL number of people who lost their jobs at Petrotrin - casual, permanent, temporary? Where did the PM find the 2.7 billion from especially if we were surviving on fumes? How politicians lie when they are in office!

Hector

Of course, statistics could be hatched to corroborate almost any condition. In this very forum I've paraphrased my undergrad statistics professor the very first day of class. As I recall, he said something to the effect that one has to be very careful and be prepared to question any statistical presentation since there were 3 types of lies, namely : lies, damn lies and then statistics.

Alexander

Some people have not been educated to realize that it's the PNM in office, so if you have to query the management, you would have to query the PNM administration, but as soon as you do so, the uneducated PNMite call you a UNC, not realizing that the first who should query the manager's ability and performance, are the person/s responsible for hiring them,or whosoever feel/felt they were best suited for the job.