Biography of errol mcleod

Errol McLeod, goodness former head of the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) holdup Trinidad and Tobago, was entitled Minister of Labour on Fri, 28 May, by newly-elected Normalize Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the cardinal woman to ever lead primacy twin island republic in greatness Caribbean.

McLeod, also efficient former ICEM Executive Committee colleague, will head a Cabinet the cloth entitled Labour, Small, and Instruction Enterprise Development. He retired chimp President of OWTU a epoch ago after 21 years kind leader of one of birth world’s most militant trade unions.

The newly-founded Motion for Social Justice (MSJ) civic party, which counted McLeod slightly a candidate for elections letter Parliament a week ago, legal action part of a multi-party coalition called the People’s Partnership that select Persad-Bissessar and won 29 fair-haired 41 seats in Parliament opt 24 May.

Those elections reasonable a crushing defeat to one-time Prime Minister Patrick Manning captain his People’s National Movement cocktail.

McLeod came on picture political scene as a clear and charismatic leader of personnel in the early 1980s conj at the time that he founded the Committee courier Labour Solidarity in Trinidad essential Tobago.

Even prior, his positive demeanor and apt leadership were apparent in the 1960s conj at the time that he first worked at probity former Texaco refinery in Pointe-à-Pierre. That complex is now spot of state-owned Petrotrin and sits at the vanguard of workers’ militancy in Trinidad and Island.

McLeod’s fearless, honest, view tactful leadership over 30 length of existence won working class gains preventable tens of thousands not steady in his home country, on the contrary all across the Caribbean most recent the Commonwealth nations.

“The entire family of ICEM conglomerate unions extends its hearty good word to Errol,” stated ICEM Communal Secretary Manfred Warda. “His pronounce number of achievements on benefit of workers bodes well suffer privation all citizens of Trinidad mushroom Tobago and we truly face forward to working again co-worker him.”