Overseas linemen briefly down tools over 'late' payments
According to reports, the linemen were disgruntled over untimely payments and allegedly not being paid to the amounts promised.
The linemen were assembled outside the BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) main office in Long Bush, Tortola until around 10:30 A.M.
But according to a source, the issue was just a misunderstanding and once that was explained to the workers they resumed duties.
According to the same source, it is understandable that payments would be late at times due to the banking system, "but the payments were never late for like a whole week."
He, however, refuted reports that there was also an issue of persons not being paid the amounts agreed on.
"That is not true at all," the source claimed.
It is not clear if any of the local linemen were part of the brief strike.
Efforts to reach the BVIEC General Manager Leroy A.E. Abraham for a comment were not successful up to time of publication.
20 Responses to “Overseas linemen briefly down tools over 'late' payments”
THANK YOU WITH THEM S#IT!!!!!!!
Neat work guys, proud of you guys climbing those pools.
If we had to depend on the BVI WORKER hurricane season would come again and they would have just started.
I remember when before hurricane they had like two persons working night shift covering the whole island, was not so in the past. The bad spending has caught up with the island and now we are going to run the country on loan money because both NDP and VIP overspend on some major projects.
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