Trinidad oil workers union warn off foreign, private investors in state entities

OWTU President General Ancel Roget

In an era when governments in the Caribbean are actively wooing foreign private investment without so much as an opposing murmur from the governed, opposition to takeover of state entities by either local or foreign private investors has the support of the most powerful trade union in Trinidad and Tobago.

Last week Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) President General Ancel Roget attracted a fair measure of media attention when he used his address to an event held to mark the Union’s 80th anniversary