Principles are principles and they ought to remain sacrosanct

Jul 23, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I have concluded that the GPSU must have observed a different election from everyone else for it to reach the conclusions it recently disclosed. According to what I saw in the media, the workers union said it determined that they were irregularities, which marred the voting process. I had expected to learn more from the Union about its conclusions and I thought it would have offered specific examples of the irregularities it claimed occurred. Rather the GPSU offered abstract and empty statements as it sought to justify a hardly justifiable call for the elections to be annulled. It begs the question that having knowledge of such occurrences what prevented the Union from making its views known earlier. Did it have to wait on any master/s?
The GPSU’s findings indeed stand out as they are the only observer grouping that has found such issues during the election. It comes back to my statement that the Union had to be observing a different election. There exists no evidence that upholds this conclusion and the elections were given a clean bill of health that is until the actions of Mr. Mingo, which has gotten us where we are presently.
I am saddened that a long-standing Union like the GPSU would throw caution and its credibility to the wind and unashamedly lend a voice to the Government. Principles are principles and they ought to remain sacrosanct and not compromised on the whim or fancy. The action of the GPSU causes me great unease and causes me to wonder how can they really and on principled grounds represent their members? Clearly, they have shown their hands and their members need to take notice.

Yours faithfully,
Patricia Persaud

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