By Petulia Clarke, Staff ReporterTHE NATIONAL Water Commission (NWC) says it will seek to ensure that its operations run as smoothly as possible, even if a threat of islandwide strike by one of the major unions representing its workers is carried out.
Charles Buchanan, the company's communications manager, said yesterday that if the strike takes place, the company would ensure optimum performance and customer satisfaction even though operations would be affected by lost manpower.
The National Workers Union (NWU), which represents more than 140 supervisors, 25 managers and over 700 workers in pre-supervisory positions, had threatened strike beginning yesterday. The union said that its members at the Marescaux Road office in Kingston would go on strike if the company stuck to its decision to withhold documentation from it. The NWC said, however, that it had no indication of a strike at the office, yesterday.
The company should have provided documentation on the details of the posts to be made redundant under a restructuring to all five unions representing the 2,500 workers by noon, yesterday.
Granville Valentine, NWU's chief negotiating officer, said that the workers at Marescaux Road would implore islandwide support if the NWC prolonged the delay in issuing the information.
All five unions representing NWC workers got yesterday, as promised, documentation on the new structures.
