NWU General Secretary Granville Valentine - file photo
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Granville Valentine
With more than 100 workers losing their jobs at Wisynco due to the ban on Styrofoam food containers, one trade unionist wants the company to implement a skills bank.
This will allow the displaced employees to get jobs at the company in the future.
Wisynco said the job cuts became necessary as it will no longer produce food containers due to the ban.
Several employees at Wisynco are represented by the National Workers Union (NWU), whose General Secretary, Granville Valentine, has said the former employees should be given first preference when new jobs are created at Wisynco.
"We also believe that the government should have also put in place a longer term in disrupting the lives of these people by implementing this ban... You cannot punish a group of workers or individual citizens by virtue of your implementation of something that we are all cognizant of over the many, many years, and something that was legal," he added.
Mr. Valentine has called for the government to urgently review aspects of the ban on Styrofoam, pointing out that while his union supports the ban, its implementation could have been delayed by at least another three to six months so workers could have better prepared themselves for job losses.
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