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LIAT: Industrial action looms – outsourcing will cause job-loss
Travellers still reeling from the shock grounding of budget Caribbean carrier REDJet are now facing the prospect that all major inter-regional travel could come to a halt if industrial action hits Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT).
The Antigua-based LIAT has the Antigua & Barbuda’s Workers Union (ABWU) up in arms following its recent announcement that it was terminating employment of 25 airline workers and now the Ministry of Labor has invited the two parties to the bargaining table in a last-ditch effort to stave off threatened industrial action.
The meeting is slated for Friday morning at 10:00a.m EST.
This development comes a day after ABWU general secretary Senator David Massiah warned the company of “dire consequences” if it failed to rescind letters which informed staff of the Quikpak Cargo Department that they would be without jobs from Sunday.
Last week LIAT issued redundancy notices to all but three employees in its Cargo and Quikpak Department in a cost-cutting bid.
