TSTT Retrenchment – Another Brutal Attack Against Workers and the Labour Movement
16 November 2018
The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) is absolutely convinced that the Rowley PNM Government is pursuing a most insidious agenda of restructuring – not just of state owned companies like Petrotrin and TSTT, but the entire society of Trinidad ...
MSJ Condemns Government Threats and Bullying Against Workers
6 September 2018
The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) condemns the threats and bullying tactics being employed by the PNM Government against the workers and trade union movement with respect to the labour movements call for Friday September 7 to be a ...
Sharing the national burden Diary of a mothering worker Entry 299 By: Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
6 September 2018
SACRIFICES MUST be made. The question is how much, by whom and at what cost.
Ordinary working people, from retail and restaurant workers to office clerks to nurses, are carrying the unequal burden of economic adjustment.
This is felt deep in ...
Labour not invited on PETROTRIN Board
6 September 2018
While I served as the OWTU general secretary, the union submitted names of our nominees to the Government for several state boards, including Petrotrin. In spite of repeated efforts to have these people considered consistent with the MOU, none ...
MSJ’S 2016 INDEPENDENCE MESSAGE - THE SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE AND CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO
31 August 2018
On August 31st, 1962 the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago made a bold statement about themselves and to the world. That statement was that, having challenged the status quo of colonialism, we would henceforth take charge of our own ...
MSJ Issues Letter of Solidarity with PSUV of Venezuela, Condemns the Assassination Attempt on President Maduro
6 August 2018
Yesterday, August 5th 2018, the Political Leader of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) wrote to Mr. Adan Chavez Frias, the Vice President, International Relations of the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) expressing solidarity with the PSUV ...
The Caribbean: Fifty years after political independence, a promise unfulfilled
3 August 2018
Political independence
August is an important month in the calendar of the English speaking Caribbean. It was on August 1st, 1838 that slavery was finally ended in the British West Indies following the four year period of so-called apprenticeship between ...
The Movement for Social Justice Congratulates the new Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
11 July 2018
The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) of Trinidad and Tobago extends congratulations to our fraternal party - the PT of Mexico, and all progressive forces who, on Sunday July 1st, together with the majority of the Mexican people – ...