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Labour leaders in politics ‘a good thing’
Curtis Rampersad Business Editor
THE labour movement’s involvement in a political party in the May 24 general election was viewed by the heads of two business groups yesterday as a demonstration of Trinidad and Tobago’s strong democracy.
Stephen Cadiz, president of the Chaguanas Chamber of Commerce, said that, from a business perspective, the involvement of former and current labour leaders in the upcoming election was symbolic of a ’strong democracy and is a good thing’.
Former Oilfields’ Workers Trade Union president Errol McLeod, now the head of the Movement for Social Justice, has expressed support for the Opposition UNC in the upcoming election and has been assigned two seats in the coalition of opposition parties which includes the UNC and the Congress of the People.
Current labour leaders Ancel Roget, David Abdulah and Rudy Indarsingh have also expressed support for the Opposition.
Cadiz told the Express by phone yesterday that in developed countries labour played a major part in governance and he saw no reason why labour should not be part of the consensus-building process in Trinidad and Tobago.
‘STRONG DEMOCRACY’: Stephen Cadiz
Greig Laughlin, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association, said yesterday that everyone had a right to be part of the political process, whether they were labour leaders or doctors, or any other profession.
’We can’t be against that, we have had labour leaders (in politics) before. We’ve had a prime minister that was a labour leader and we’ve had labour leaders as parliamentarians. So we think everyone has the right,’ he told the Express. (Trinidad Express)