Some former Barbadian LIAT employees are considering parting ways with the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) and National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) accusing them of a lack of proper representation in a two-year struggle for the payment of outstanding severance.A spokesman for the group which includes pilots and engineers is also criticising the Barbados Government, claiming the Mia Mottley Administration has “put them out to pasture” and gone silent on the plight of the Barbadians, who were among hundreds of other Caribbean nationals retrenched by the Antigua-headquartered airline without a cent.The ex-LIAT worker from Barbados who did not want to be identified said St Lucian Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre has shown leadership with respect to his nationals when he made good on his promise to make severance and other termination benefit payments to former St Lucian workers following the collapse of the company in 2020.
