DEAR EDITOR:
Season’s greetings. I am writing to you all because I really don’t know what to do. Security officers at the Public Works Security Department are being bullied, verbally abused, lied on, victimized and straight up disregarded and disrespected.
We are adults, not children, For this woman supervisor to always be horrible to us and when we talk she carries us in front of the chief security officer and the coordinator and she tells blatant lies and they believe her. They like to threaten to fire people, send us home, take our jobs from us, intimidating workers into submission.
These people are sending workers to compounds that don’t have any shelter for security. We have to be catching up here and there. Rain is wetting us and sun drying us. Every day they are sending us to a different school. What about us that have children to take to school? They want us to come into Public Works for after 7 every day to sign and be dispatched.
They are not paying us for those times, they are paying us from 8-4. Every day a different officer is on school compound. Purcell don’t even do that because he know School should be different. Children need stability. Every day we have to be asking teachers and children their names. Sometimes we don’t know what to write in the books because we don’t know the teachers and anyone else working at the school names. We are confused.
Every time a teacher comes into the compound we have to be running behind them to ask: What is your name? Cleaners, what is your name? School meals workers, what is your name? Children, what is your name? This is difficult. We are dealing with school and I think officers should be stationary except if a worker is on vacation, sick day, sick leave etc.
These people have workers today in Willikies, tomorrow is John Hughes, the next day is Old Road. Workers living in Old Road they send them Willikies, workers living up East they send round South, Workers living Town they send them to John Hughes.
We are disgruntled workers. We are unhappy because the management team is doing everything in their power to make us miserable and depressed. Miserable workers cannot perform well in their jobs. Also, the poor workers on the job program are taking a beating from these people.
Better must be done. Minister of Works you are a woman and most of the security officers are women. We need your intervention. We need a meeting so we can air our views. Please and thank you. We need help. For years and years we are suffering. We don’t want to continue to suffer in 2024.
Help please!
2 responses to “HELP PLEASE: Security officers at Public Works are being bullied”
To that security worker.You all as security workers need to come together and stand up for your right.Why don’t you all have a sick out and also demand a meeting with the Minister Maria and the PS for that ministry.If they fail to meet with you all do not work go on strike.In Antigua only when Govt workers strike that they are being looked after.Pls all of you Security Officers stand together and you will see mountain removed from your path..Pls go forth into 2024 with a different sense of mind.Fearing nothing.
Minister of public works waste of dam time