Mr. Granville Valentine

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  Secondly, there are many needs presently at the national airline that US$4.5 million will take care of ... we have serious difficulty with that," said Granville Valentine, NWU Vice President.

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  Yesterday, the National Workers Union's Granville Valentine described the exclusion of the committee as "total madness" and expressed disappointment with the members of the committee for remaining silent on the issue.
  
  "In this instance the unions are sleeping," said Valentine.

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  Published on: 10/19/2007    Last Visited: 10/19/2007  

  Senior negotiating officer of the NWU, Granville Valentine, is advising workers to be mindful of the customer base of the airline.
  
  "Workers have been asking me what it is they can do.I am sure that we will have to do a hell of a job to keep these workers on the job; it is going to be serious times in the next few hours at Air Jamaica," he told The Gleaner last night."We just want to appeal to our people to let good sense prevail ... and to ensure that we look at the bigger picture," he added.
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  But, Mr. Valentine who spoke highly of Mr. Conway, said the union was upset and believed Mr. Conway was forced out of the airline.

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  NWU Vice President Granville Valentine told RJR News that the contractors have agreed to reinstate provisions for vacation and sick leave as well as standby allowances.
  
  "The agreement reached was that the drivers would be paid for their sick leave and vacation leave.They will also be paid for toll fees that they paid and the protracted period during which they were not paid for their services," said Mr. Valentine.
  
  Mr. Valentine said the intervention of the Minister was critical in staving off strike action in the petroleum distributive trade.
  
  He said arising out of the meeting, tanker drivers were hopeful of better industrial relations with haulage contractors.
  
  In the meantime, Energy Minister Clive Mullings says he is relieved that the threat of strike action by tanker drivers has been averted.
  
  The Minister says he expects haulage contractors to honour their obligations that are outlined in the wage agreement with tanker drivers.

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  Published on: 8/12/2008    Last Visited: 8/13/2008  

  National Workers Union (NWU) Vice President, Granville Vallentine told RJR News the row has been triggered by the failure of several petroleum haulage contractors to fulfil a wage and fringe benefits agreement.

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  NWU Vice President Granville Valentine said the NWC was given a stern warning that the workers will not tolerate any future late payment of salaries.

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  NWU Vice-President, Granville Valentine said he is hoping to arrive at a settlement on Friday during a follow-up meeting.
  
  Valentine said the union is willing to negotiate since the company has somewhat agreed that it was wrong.
  
  He said, "we outlined our case quite clearly, the management we met with agreed with us for the most part that the company committed a breach by taking the money then investigated."
  
  He however warned that the workers will take industrial action if the money is not reimbursed.

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  These workers are feeling the economic pinch that everybody is feeling and they believe that it's unfair that this meager adjustment that they are requesting cannot be signed," said NWU Vice President Granville Valentine.

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  Vice-President of the National Workers Union, Granville Valentine, said the workers remain extremely disgruntled over the airline's stance regarding their request for a pay increase.
  
  "The offer is just for salary and the attitude is a ,take it or leave it' one and the workers are very upset, many of them flatly reject the position,"
  
  "We met with workers over the weekend and yesterday and we are still meeting with the workers before one o'clock today to see how best we can reach to a final decision because there are strong mixed reactions that we are facing right now," he said.

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  Published on: 5/27/2008    Last Visited: 5/27/2008  

  According to NWU Vice-President, Granville Valentine the workers are demanding that the policy of providing complimentary first class tickets be immediately terminated.
  
  Mr. Valentine said a suggestion was also made for the airline to recover the cost of free airline tickets issued to Parliamentarians in the past.
  
  "They are bleeding the country dry and this money should be paid retroactively for all those years that they (benefited from this arrangement with) the company ... this is direct cash that they have taken away from the company by not paying for their travel."
  
  Mr. Valentine said the revenue of the company cannot be maintained if this practice continues.
  
  "The workers are serious that they need to be paid and they believe that they are being cheated, robbed by the politicians of Jamaica," he said.

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