KFTL workers restive due to suspension of colleagues; threaten industrial action

November 10, 2026

The Port Supervisors’ Union (PSU) has served notice on the Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of industrial action by its members at the terminal.

The notice started at 9:30 A.M. on Saturday and expires at 9:30 this morning.

The PSU said yesterday that the industrial action will take place unless the company rescinds the suspension of two workers associated with the union and undertakes that no further action will be taken against any worker on account of his or her association with the union.

According to the PSU, the workers were reportedly suspended because of their affiliation with the union while the question of the workers’ representation is before the Industrial Disputes Tribunal.

Business agent of the PSU, St. Patrice Ennis, said the notice follows the suspension of one worker on October 28 this year and of a second on Friday while the first suspension was being addressed at the Ministry.

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He said with the notice expiring today, the workers will decide their next course of action.

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According to Mr. Ennis, the workers at Kingston Freeport Terminal have done everything the law asks of them.

He said they signed with the union of their choice and they have waited 16 months for a ballot.

He further argued that when the tribunal ordered that there be no industrial action, they went back to work and they have stayed there.

He said the company’s aim to remove from the port, one at a time, the people who would speak for the union among their colleagues and to forbid them from speaking to anyone is wrong.