Chant­i­ng be­tray­al, treach­ery and in­jus­tice, hun­dreds of work­ers braved heavy rains and marched to the his­toric Fyz­abad Junc­tion yes­ter­day in cel­e­bra­tion of Labour Day.While Fyz­abad MP Chan­dresh Shar­ma, Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal and Labour Min­is­ter Er­rol Mc Leod stayed away from the march, rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice were present, along with po­lit­i­cal leader David Ab­du­lah.The labour lead­ers ar­rived at But­ler House around noon with var­i­ous sec­tions of the Oil­field Work­ers' Trade Union and the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers Trade Union.

These unions were fol­lowed by the Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union, T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion, UWI Open Cam­pus and the Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion, all shout­ing for jus­tice.Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Na­tion­al Union of Do­mes­tic Em­ploy­ees, and the OAS sec­tion, who have been en­gaged in protest over con­struc­tion of the Gov­ern­ment's $7.5 bil­lion high­way, al­so joined the march.The work­ers de­nounced the Gov­ern­ment for en­gag­ing in nepo­tism and cor­rup­tion.Pres­i­dent gen­er­al of the All Trinidad Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union Nir­van Ma­haraj told the work­ers: "We are fail­ing be­cause we have for­got­ten the lessons of the past and while we for­get our young men are dy­ing in the killing fields of the north­ern hills, the cen­tral plains and the south­ern lands."

Pres­i­dent of TTUTA Rous­tan Job said there must be changes in the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem to cater for non-aca­d­e­m­ic pupils."School stud­ies are be­com­ing ir­rel­e­vant to the needs of so­ci­ety with over-em­pha­sis on qual­i­fi­ca­tion with­out learn­ing, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion with­out knowl­edge of how to in­ter­act and show abil­i­ties," Job said.He said there was hope­less­ness among young Peo­ple and the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem is not ad­dress­ing this con­cern. Job al­so called for reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion of ear­ly child­hood care teach­ers who are cur­rent­ly be­ing paid $2,600 per month.