By: Joseph Jones
Workers (People), it is good to sing the praises to our God and the St.Kitts-Nevis Trades and Labour Union.
Listen to me, it is said: “Words make us arrive at thoughts, music make us feel and feeling but a song makes feel a thought (a process of thinking, a concept or idea). What better thoughts could we feel when this Union expresses its love for us around negotiating table when it comes to the collective bargaining challenge on safety and health at work.
People who love money will always want more and striving to amass it (accumulate), they will bring on themselves pains/health problems.
We all need money, of course. It provides a measure of protection but let me ask you a question: Can a person be truly happy if he has only enough for his basic needs? If I have to answer that I would say absolutely (Yes).
Workers, this Union is educating you in regard to occupational safety and health. At times powerful forces have tried to keep you down but I am saying to you pay attention to your health and safety.
Hello! If and when any figures are reported, they represent only a fraction of the real situation of the real situation, owing to the fact that many accidents are never reported and many industrial diseases go unrecognized. Chemical hazards, noise and those which are not easily detected and produce no obvious (easy to see or understand) immediate effect on the health of the worker, one can guess at the number of workers in St.Kitts-Nevis who suffer from diseases caused by the ever-increasing use of these insidious hazards introduced annually into the workplace.
Hear this: Economic considerations often override any thought of the health and safety of the worker. It would be wrong to give the impression that the problem is confined solely to the process of industrialisation that has taken place here.
Certainly, the experience of industrialisation to develop on a large scale has made us more aware of the horrors (extreme fear) that can be associated with work and has gradually revealed that the progress of technology considerable human and social deficits as well as benefits.
However, if you take St.Kitts as a whole, the majority of workers are from the rural areas. Such workers also face a variety of hazards in the daily fight to survive. People listen to the St.Kitts-Nevis Trades & Labour.
Thanking you.
*Note Well* Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know a subject ourselves or where we can find the information on it.
Until next week.