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

It was a bittersweet moment for those 156 workers of Call Centre Services (CCS) – formally Bodog – as they collected their promised severance cheques yesterday.

Faced with mounting pressures and increasing demands from their workers, three security firms are being advised to hike the rates they charge for their services in order to stay afloat.

Up to late yesterday there had been no resolution or progress in a pay dispute that resulted in a complete work stoppage by about 100 Antigua-based employees of LIAT.

In a letter dated 20th December 2006, the Human Resource Manager of Texaco West Indies Ltd informed the Antigua & Barbuda Workers’ Union that Texaco had become Chevron West Indies Ltd.

Airlines flying into the VC Bird International Airport are counting their losses after Chevron fuel attendants staged a two-day sickout here for the second time in weeks, forcing aircraft to refuel elsewhere.