Disgruntled air traffic controllers at Jamaica’s airports have been prevented from taking further industrial action due to an injunction issued by the Supreme Court today.
Ministry of Labour says it has received an injunction preventing the air traffic controllers from continuing their industrial action. In a release issued a short while ago, the ministry says air traffic controllers have been restrained from taking action over the next 28 days.
The air traffic controllers went on strike over Government’s failure to address salary issues and include them in ongoing wage negotiations. President of the Air Traffic Controllers Association, Kurt Solomon had said earlier that the members, who have been on strike since last night, would have remained off the job until their demands were addressed by the Government.
They want the Government to implement a ruling by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal regarding a disagreement with the Civil Aviation Authority about overpayments. The workers, who navigate air traffic in Jamaica’s air space, have been insisting that they have not been overpaid.
Meanwhile,officials at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston say operations at the facility are returning to normal.
The airport’s vice president of commercial development and marketing, Mark Williams says although several flights were delayed as a result of today’s strike action, contingencies implemented by the Civil Aviation Authority have been cushioning the effects.
