While PTSC workers in the company’s South office held off on protest action yesterday, they are renewing their calls for the management team to be replaced.
In an interview with the T&T Guardian yesterday, Transport and Industrial Workers Union (TIWU) branch representative, Roland Woods, said the current management team could not run the service efficiently.
“We have four people in charge who know nothing about running a bus service... they know less than us. Those are some of the problems we have to face here.
“We have some of the best buses and they just have the buses down. This is a gold mine and they just have the buses parked up here and the people who could repair the buses, you trying to fight them down. I told them the hornet’s nest raised and I am ready to deal with that,” Woods said.
He said due to an ongoing police investigation about the theft of a bus engine, TIWU vice-president Andy Sinanan advised the workers to halt their protests.
“The workers didn’t come out today to protest because after I spoke to Andy Sinanan he advised me that we should hold off on the lunch time protests because it is in fact illegal for us to protest outside of working hours and he told us to hold off on the protest and let the police do their jobs and conduct their investigation,” Woods added. He said he was expected to meet with several senior PTSC officials in Port-of-Spain today on the issue.
“I was hoping to have a hearing with even the minister (Works and Transport Minister Fitzgerald Hinds) because you ought to have people in places that can get the job done.
“That is what needs to be done. You have to change management and we the workers here are adamant that they change management. As long as we can prove that management is not sufficient and they cannot do the job, they need to be removed,” he said.
Calls yesterday to the cellphone of PTSC general manager, Roland Forde, went unanswered.