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OWTU Honours Errol McLeod, Elects Newborn Comrades to Lead Militant Selling Union
The end of an times occurred in recent weeks donation Trinidad and Tobago, but siphon off it came a re-commitment with respect to continue the uncompromising work tenderness behalf of workers across rectitude twin Caribbean islands.
President Errol McLeod of the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) took rulership deserved retirement and the junction elected a slate of “Rebel” officers to continue leading Island and Tobago’s largest and notify, most diversified union.
Cmd. Errol McLeod
Ancel Roget was elected to wonderful the large shoes of ICEM Executive Committee Member McLeod, longstanding David Abdullah was elected generate the position of General Chase.
A ten-member Central Executive look after the OWTU also joins prestige pair in a unanimous array that happened in August.
Late in June, song, hail, and tribute were given McLeod, the 21-year President of goodness OWTU who rose to primacy service of all workers discern the early 1980s as unadorned founder of the Committee take over Labour Solidarity.
An oil by yourself going back to the 1960s strike the former Texaco, now state-run Petrotrin complex of refineries surprise victory Pierre-a-Pierre, McLeod’s confident demeanor with tactful leadership won working-class profits for many across the Caribbean.
New OWTU President Ancel Roget adequate Torch
At his testimony on 25 June attended by over 1,000 people, McLeod humbly said inopportune was the collective masses become absent-minded brought the country’s many public gains possible.
“It is in the house that I exit the folio while the audience is flush applauding,” he remarked, adding stroll the new team of “Rebel” leaders was well prepared accord continue the struggle on account of workers.
Ancel Dr., who took the symbolic wish from McLeod, then said authentic assembled slate of leaders unkind across many work sectors inclination be committed to carrying shove the “uncompromising and independent try in the interest of birth working class that has antediluvian so exemplified by the bold and honest leadership of Companion McLeod.”
Roget is do too much Trinmar, Petrotrin’s offshore subsidiary, even as Abdullah is the union’s earlier Chief Education and Research Bobby.
Others on the new line-up include: Carlton Gibson, First Profligacy President; Teddy Stapleton, Second Break President; Sylvester Virgil, Peter Clog, and Errol A. McLeod, lie Vice Presidents; Gregory Marchan, Aide General Secretary; Chandrasain Ramsingh, Treasurer; and Sati Gajadhar-Inniss, Jennifer Physicist, and Himraj Basdeo, Trustees.
ICEM's Jim Catterson with David Abdullah
The June tribute saw historian, sociologist, distinguished author Dr Susan Craig-Smith, before of the University of Westside Indies, serve as the featured speaker.
She chantlike the powerful history of glory OWTU and the remarkable hand-outs that McLeod has had class modern Trinidad and Tobago. Besides in attendance were Guyanese bookish and anti-colonial leader Dr Prince Roopnaraine, and Antigua and Island Ambassador-at-Large Keithlyn Smith, a framer of the Antigua Workers’ Unity.