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Workers at St George’s University in Grenada told, Get injected or get lost
BY MICHAEL THOMAS
As of June 15th, 2021, workers at St George’s University in Grenada who refuse to be injected by the experimental injection are locked out of their jobs without pay.
A worker told a reputable source on the spice island how bad the situation has become, “I work at St. George’s University for eight years now, and there is a lot of issues at St. George’s University that need to be addressed, but we are dealing with the fact of the vaccine right now,” said Rebecca Ojay.
Ojay shared, “St. George’s University sent out a notification for the workers that from the 15th of June we will no longer be able to come on the campus.”
She is disappointed with her union (TAWU Technical & Allied Workers Union) for not doing more sooner. TAWU knew of the plans of SGU and basically folded their hands as opposed to confronting the University.
“We are being forced to take a vaccine – we are denied the right to be human beings to provide for our family and provide for ourselves if we refuse to take this vaccine.”
“Our Prime Minister gives the right to the private sector to control this country and to control the people of this country. For far too long Grenadians are submitting to these kinds of wrongdoing and wrong justice where our Prime Minister makes choices and deals behind our backs.
I am taking the right to stand here and say that I’m a loyal follower of Dr. Keith Mitchell and I’m following his every move. He said that no white man can’t tell them how to run this country, so no white man is going to tell me to put an experimental drug in my body.
I think our Prime Minister needs to stand up for his people and stop making all these deals behind our backs and making us suffer for whatever reason I do not know.”
President General of TAWU, Senator Andre Lewis said that the union contacted SGU months earlier and recently on vaccination issues, “Expressing our concern that this is not proper and correct. Preventing workers who are not vaccinated from entering the compound is a violation of their contract of employment.”
He said that his union would have to take this matter further. “The school has said not to come on the compound. We have advised the workers that given the fact that the school has told them not to come on the compound unless they are vaccinated, then the school cannot terminate them for abandoning their jobs as was one of the concerns of the workers.”
SGU has said that they will not be paying the un-injected workers as of June 15th, 2021, and TAWU has said, “We do not agree with that and we will be addressing that.”
Meanwhile, Grenada’s Prime Minister Mitchell has been giving out mixed signals on the issue, saying that the government will not support mandatory vaccination but indicated that employers have a right to take action to protect their businesses against the deadly virus.
With words like these coming from the highest office on the island, one can safely say that Grenadians are at the mercy of their employers.