A powerful trade union in Grenada has issued a warning to the Keith Mitchell administration that it will not be governed by an adjusted Labour Code. The new code seeks to outlaw strike action by certain categories of workers. Over a year ago, the Grenada government adjusted the Labour Code to make it more difficult for unions to encourage workers to go on what it called “wild cat strikes” in key sectors of the economy, such as public utilities. But Chester Humphrey, President of the Technical and Allied Workers Union, called the adjustments anti-worker and demanded that the legislation be repealed. Mr. Humphrey challenged the authorities to touch or jail a single union member under the legislation, arguing that they would feel the might of the Technical and Allied Workers Union. The proposed change to the Labour Code was first tabled in October 2000, after employees at the Grenada Broadcasting Network walked off the job en masse, almost bringing the operations of the then state-owned entity to a halt. The adjusted code makes it more difficult for unions and employees in essential services such as electricity, telephone, water, sea and airport workers and persons in the medical field to take strike action whether it is for their personal benefit or in solidarity with another workplace. Workers found by the Court to be in violation of that part of the Act can be charged up to one million EC dollars or US $374 each and imprisoned for as long as six months. Reprinted from radioja.com