The 65 Stanford Development Company (SDC) employees who downed tools over non-payment of salaries, last week, are back at work despite not receiving a dime of the three months outstanding wages and salaries.

In a twist of fate, a body usually responsible for organising and staging industrial action was yesterday the victim of industrial action.

Fourteen employees from the Marketing Department of West Indies Oil Company called in sick yesterday, halting the company’s distribution of cooking gas and slowing down operations in other departments.

About 30 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers agitating for back pay are expected to be slow on their feet today until they get word about when they’ll be paid more than $100,000 in risk pay approved from January.

Over a month since industrial action came to an end by the Emergency Medical Services (EMS), talk of returning to strike action has not abated.

There is no resolution in sight for the employees at the Government workshop following a “disappointing” meeting between the union representative and the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Public Works yesterday.

Up to press time last evening, Attorney General Justin Simon and union representative Ralph Potter were reportedly locked in another meeting as part of continuing efforts to resolve ongoing disputes that have seen at least a dozen employees of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) on strike for the past nine days.

Industrial action by employees of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Division in the Ministry of Health continued for a sixth straight day on Monday with no end in sight, despite intervention efforts by the country’s attorney general.

The Antigua Trades and Labour Union (AT&LU) is refusing to either welcome or dismiss the newly appointed Chairman of the Port Authority Board Greg Walter and has committed to taking an open-minded approach into the discussions.

The Antigua Trades and Labour Union (AT&LU) is continuing to query the method used by the Ministry of Health and its rationale for selecting individuals for new positions within the Emergency Medical Services (EMS).