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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby Numb3r4 » August 30th, 2019, 4:57 pm

Serious question folks how does the teaching service look?

I had applied to UTT in the Mechanical Engineering Department, I think, to work as an assistant in the labs, no dice.

Sad.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby zoom rader » August 30th, 2019, 5:51 pm

bluefete wrote:Real weeping going on in UTT right now.

Many hard working and genuine staff were sent home.

Great is the PNM and Tantie Kams who overstaffed the institution under her watch.
I hope they and their family use their vote wise this time round.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby shake d livin wake d dead » August 30th, 2019, 7:03 pm

Who's next?? I find they brave to do that so close to election

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby bluefete » August 30th, 2019, 7:10 pm

Real shrite went on in UTT today. Some skaters who should have been sent home were kept.

The clincher is that the 1% get another BIG WUK.

UTT has terminated its security department and Amalgamated Security was given the contract from September.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby zoom rader » August 30th, 2019, 8:36 pm

bluefete wrote:Real shrite went on in UTT today. Some skaters who should have been sent home were kept.

The clincher is that the 1% get another BIG WUK.

UTT has terminated its security department and Amalgamated Security was given the contract from September.
The Eleit people Will be please

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby daring dragoon » August 31st, 2019, 5:50 am

dem aint care boi, the 199 go still vote pnm. real blak men suffering out here and over the last 50 years still vote pnm and will continue to do so. is only indian does have bad mind and say ah go do for dem and go and join pnm like ramesh and ralph. pnm will take it in d behind and say pnm till ah dead.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby daring dragoon » August 31st, 2019, 5:59 am

where is the union in all this? how cime there is no shut down of the country, no marches , nutting. all them go to do is take yuh dues and live in fancy expensive woodbrook housing and make sure their children get brown education outside of trinidad and dont do one ass for its members. TSTT, PETRoTRIN AND UTT and others were unionized and the union did not help them.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby zoom rader » August 31st, 2019, 8:06 am

How come no unemployment at tuner

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby The_Honourable » August 31st, 2019, 10:01 am

Manning rolling in his grave.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby De Dragon » September 1st, 2019, 3:08 pm

Dizzy28 wrote:
bluefete wrote:Real weeping going on in UTT right now.

Many hard working and genuine staff were sent home.

Great is the PNM and Tantie Kams who overstaffed the institution under her watch.


But just last week UTT had thier 2nd annual research symposium that Rowls attended and all the speakers spoke of the importance of the institution and its mandate to the country.

JUHN Scarfy only listens to financiers, friends and family, and well, his and the PNM's lawyer lately.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby vaiostation » September 1st, 2019, 6:36 pm

Well, more job losses for utt in the near future, plus they might shutdown some campuses, and lease out their buildings...

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby zoom rader » September 1st, 2019, 7:19 pm

vaiostation wrote:Well, more job losses for utt in the near future, plus they might shutdown some campuses, and lease out their buildings...
Yep so shut down a perceived injun filled school and keep the PNM Costaatt running.

Makes sense

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby vaiostation » September 2nd, 2019, 8:43 am

Atlantic cut staff by 20% in two years

LIQUEFIED natural gas producer Atlantic reduced its headcount by 9 per cent last year, however, the company’s non-tax contributions to the T&T economy increased by 7.6 per cent that year.

According to its 2018 Sustainability Report, compared to 2017, there were 54 fewer people working at Atlantic last year as the company’s headcount was reduced to 567 employees in 2018 from 621 in 2017.

Atlantic’s total non-tax contribution in 2018 increased to US$423 million from US$392.9 million in 2017, an increase of 7.6 per cent.

In 2017, Atlantic also cut jobs, but reduced spending by 10 per cent. Last year, Atlantic announced that around 50 of its permanent staff were offered VSEP packages as a gas supply shortfall hampered the facility’s production.

The company lamented at the time that it was facing the toughest period in its 20-year history.

“Global LNG prices remain at depressed levels and at the same time, Atlantic continues to suffer from unprecedented levels of gas supply shortfall. Over the last two years, the severe gas supply shortages have resulted in facility utilization rates of less than 70 per cent,” the company said at the time.

“Recognisng the need to respond to the gas shortages, to streamline its activities and ensure it remains efficient in the new environment Atlantic has conducted a comprehensive review of its business – part of which has included a review of the required resources,” it added.

According to the 2018 Sustainability Report, the number of employees at Atlantic declined from 706 in 2016 to 621 in 2017.

https://trinidadexpress.com/business/lo ... 1cbb6.html

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby Dizzy28 » September 2nd, 2019, 5:27 pm

By ZR logic PNM will have to take the blame at LNG

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby De Dragon » September 2nd, 2019, 5:38 pm

Dizzy28 wrote:By ZR logic PNM will have to take the blame at LNG

Yes they do actually, well partially at least. Gas shortfalls are on us, whether we like it or not, because we allowed the gas to "only" be liquefied and sold away as, well ,gas. We never seriously attempted to monetise our gas when it was abundant, worse yet now.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby sMASH » November 13th, 2019, 5:12 pm

https://www.103fm.tt/news/yara-trinidad ... WFNk9EmyVU

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Yara Trinidad Ltd to shut down ammonia plant

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Yara Trinidad Limited is shutting down its ammonia plant in Point Lisas.
The Yara Plant is fully owned by Yara Trinidad Ltd and is one of three ammonia plants in Savonetta operated by the company.
The other two, Tringen I and Tringen II, are jointly owned by Yara International ASA and National Enterprises Ltd (NEL).
According to a release issued today, the company says plant profitability has been impacted by lower ammonia prices.
It adds that negotiations with NGC have failed to reach an agreement that could sustain its operations.
As a result, Yara says steps will be taken to safely shut down the plant and cease production of ammonia by December 31st 2019.
Discussions have also began with the OWTU to assist in mitigating the impact on employees.
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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby vaiostation » November 13th, 2019, 5:22 pm

Without a reliable supply of natural gas more companies are gonna be shutting down in the near future.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby Rovin » November 13th, 2019, 5:31 pm

we gettin it done ...

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby The_Honourable » November 13th, 2019, 5:34 pm

Rovin wrote:Yara gettin it done ...


fixed

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby sMASH » November 13th, 2019, 5:40 pm

vaiostation wrote:Without a reliable supply of natural gas more companies are gonna be shutting down in the near future.


but LNG is selling by the boat loads, and we dont have natural gas?

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby pugboy » November 13th, 2019, 5:44 pm

Well if yuh have contracts to sell which must be satisfied yuh have no choice but to send it
And when the old contracts expire, to renew them yuh need to hire a magician if yuh didn’t realize yuh oversell and the supply runnin out

sMASH wrote:
vaiostation wrote:Without a reliable supply of natural gas more companies are gonna be shutting down in the near future.


but LNG is selling by the boat loads, and we dont have natural gas?

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby sMASH » November 13th, 2019, 5:52 pm

pugboy wrote:Well if yuh have contracts to sell which must be satisfied yuh have no choice but to send it
And when the old contracts expire, to renew them yuh need to hire a magician if yuh didn’t realize yuh oversell and the supply runnin out

sMASH wrote:
vaiostation wrote:Without a reliable supply of natural gas more companies are gonna be shutting down in the near future.


but LNG is selling by the boat loads, and we dont have natural gas?


last year or before, one of them was up for renewal, and so done. in the successive years, the other will be up for renewal, and i expect the same. no real push to conserve the finite resource. all the talk about diversification of teh down streams is BS because they not making the raw materials available to them.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby rspann » November 13th, 2019, 6:00 pm

PNM cares. We getting it done.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby hydroep » November 13th, 2019, 6:40 pm

Shyte...workers must be in tatters...:|

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby rspann » November 13th, 2019, 7:08 pm

Sell it to Roget.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby pugboy » November 13th, 2019, 7:11 pm

That plant actually real old
1959, one of the oldest plants

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby hydroep » December 4th, 2019, 8:21 am

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...:|

Unilever workers to be sent home
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It is like­ly that work­ers of Unilever Caribbean Lim­it­ed will be sent home with Christ­mas just a few weeks away.

Neil Mc Each­nie who is the branch rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) at Unilever told the Guardian by phone yes­ter­day he was un­sure how many work­ers will be sent home.

The OW­TU is the recog­nised ma­jor­i­ty union at Unilever.

Ear­li­er this year it was re­port­ed that that the com­pa­ny was con­sid­er­ing send­ing home 285 work­ers.

Mc Each­nie said that he was in­formed yes­ter­day by oth­er of­fi­cers of the branch that an email was sent alert­ing work­ers of a meet­ing to be held and work­ers were in­formed by line man­agers to be present at spe­cif­ic meet­ing rooms.

“It was my un­der­stand­ing that when work­ers as­sem­bled in the meet­ing rooms around 2 pm, they were ad­vised by the com­pa­ny that the com­pa­ny had tak­en the de­ci­sion to progress their re­trench­ment ex­er­cise.”

He said work­ers were giv­en a slip with their names on it and a time to re­turn.

“They were in­formed by this slip to re­turn to­mor­row for fur­ther in­for­ma­tion. I an­tic­i­pate that the ap­proach to this re­struc­tur­ing ex­er­cise will oc­cur in two phas­es. The first phase will see the re­trench­ment of part of the work­force. Sub­se­quent­ly, the oth­er part of the work­force will be re­trenched. Even­tu­al­ly, the en­tire union­ized work­force will be re­trenched.”

Cur­rent­ly, there are 286 work­ers that the OW­TU rep­re­sents.

Mc Each­nie ob­served that there has been no of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the union as yet on specif­i­cal­ly when the re­trench­ment will take place.

“I an­tic­i­pate by to­mor­row work­ers will know their fate.”

He blames Unilever for “poor man­age­ment’ that has re­sult­ed in this and pre­dicts that they will re­lo­cate man­u­fac­tur­ing to an­oth­er part of the world, where oth­er work­ers will be ex­ploit­ed.

In Au­gust, Unilever in a state­ment said: “In the spir­it of se­cur­ing the long-term op­er­a­tions of the com­pa­ny, it is cur­rent­ly re­view­ing its op­er­a­tions in the con­text of a weak do­mes­tic econ­o­my and a chal­leng­ing glob­al en­vi­ron­ment. For the past few weeks, UCL has been in dis­cus­sions with stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU)—the rec­og­nised ma­jor­i­ty union for work­ers em­ployed by the com­pa­ny—about the fu­ture of UCL’s op­er­a­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go. At this point, no de­ci­sions have been tak­en on the fu­ture path of the com­pa­ny and work con­tin­ues as usu­al.”

The com­pa­ny said it is de­vel­op­ing strate­gies to re­spond to stiff com­pe­ti­tion from im­port­ed prod­ucts, de­pressed mar­ket con­di­tions and changes in con­sumer buy­ing pat­terns.

The Guardian reached out to Unilever’s of­fice to get a com­ment on the mat­ter but was told by se­cu­ri­ty that no one was present and to call again the fol­low­ing day.


https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/unilever-workers-to-be-sent-home-6.2.1000433.ecf97267b9

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby Ben_spanna » December 4th, 2019, 8:35 am

^^^ As Usual
Blame the company and poor management.
Stupid ignorant people who are not at the helm of businesses facing stiff impossible import competition will always make such remarks.
Blame your government and CARICOM for selling out the region.
Theres NO protection, no advantages to manufacturing to compete against CHEAP imports that are not regulated nor taxed.
CARICOM used to play a vital position in importing into the region, but within the last 5-8 years have now withered down with no backbone and no apparent stance to securing its survival.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby jhonnieblue » December 4th, 2019, 9:24 am

Know some personal friends working Unilever.
Basically the company can't compete and it's no longer profitable to continue operating in trinidad. Especially with the union.
The Mexican arm will probably take over manufacturing.

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Re: Unemployment Count Thread

Postby zoom rader » December 4th, 2019, 10:00 am

Ben_spanna wrote:^^^ As Usual
Blame the company and poor management.
Stupid ignorant people who are not at the helm of businesses facing stiff impossible import competition will always make such remarks.
Blame your government and CARICOM for selling out the region.
Theres NO protection, no advantages to manufacturing to compete against CHEAP imports that are not regulated nor taxed.
CARICOM used to play a vital position in importing into the region, but within the last 5-8 years have now withered down with no backbone and no apparent stance to securing its survival.
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