Source- Real News Antigua: Joan Peters, president of the Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association (ABPSA), says the picketing Ministry of Agriculture workers are planning to go all out until they get what they are asking for – that is, to be relocated to a better work space.
Peters says the protest action – which began last Friday – is expected to continue until the worker’s demands are met.
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That was Joan Peters, president of the Public Service Association.
The workers’ current quarters on Independence Drive are falling to pieces, with fragments of the ceiling reported to be dropping on the staff as they work.
The building is said to be cracking and leaning, with a termite infestation, mold and unsanitary bathroom facilities.
Reportedly, the overall structure is in a dilapidated state and in dire need of urgentrenovation – or to be condemned.
Last Friday, March 15, workers took to the picket line with their union representatives from the ABPSA joining them.
They said they are tired of the repeated promises to relocate them, with the last such assurance – given in January this year – that they would be moved by February 14.
However, since early December last year, the workers had been informed that they would be moved to the former NTTC building on Nugent Avenue.
Then, during an earlier interview, Peters had indicated that there was some contention over the building – which the Ministry of Health owns and where it had planned to move a few of its own departments.
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