T&T: Now Petrotrin may join ALNG workers

Petrotrin's temporary/casual staff joined, yesterday, the spate of protest action which has been rocking the energy sector the past month.

Approximately 300 workers, armed with placards, marched around the Petrotrin administration building at the Pointe-a-Pierre Roundabout, demanding that they be made permanent.

This follows about a month of protest action by Atlantic LNG employees, who are demanding improved wages and safety facilities.

When disgruntled casual workers arrived at the Petrotrin refinery yesterday, the gate leading to the area which houses people awaiting selection for temporary employment was locked.

They had to dismantle the gate to gain access to the facility.

President of OWTU Petrotrin, Pointe-a-Pierre branch, Hollis Alexander, said the decision to protest came after one month of failed negotiations with the company's human resource department.

Any strike in T&T's energy sector is going to be bad business for both T&T and the U.S. Here's an article assessing T&T's dominance over Venezuela in natural gas development. This article here indicates that the strike in T&T may not have much of an impact here in the U.S. because heating demand is tapering off as spring weather approaches. Somebody ought to tell Georgia and the Carolinas that.