The Tribune

VETERAN Bahamian trade union leader Jennifer Isaacs-Dotson has been elected as President of The Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL), the regional trade union of national workers organisations.

Ms Isaacs-Dotson presently serves as both President of the Union of Tertiary Educators of the Bahamas and General Secretary of the National Congress of Trade Unions Bahamas (NCTUB). She is also a member of the National Tripartite Council and a board member of The Bahamas Development Bank.

Minister of Labour and National Insurance, Shane Gibson, said Ms Isaacs-Dotson was well qualified to lead the CCL “given her leadership skills and experience”. In congratulating and wishing her well, he described the leadership role as “prestigious and important”.

The CCL is a regional trade union of national workers’ organisations from 13 states and three non-metropolitan territories of the English and Dutch speaking Caribbean, including Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Curacao, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Marten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname.

“Ms Isaacs-Dotson’s election to the position as head of the Caribbean Trade Union Movement in the region is an indication of the quality of labour leaders in our beloved Bahamaland and speaks volumes of her ability and the level of respect the Bahamas trade union movement has earned in the region,” Mr Gibson said.

John Pinder, President of NCTUB, led the Bahamian delegation to the 19th Triennial Meeting of the CCL in Antigua last month at which Ms Isaacs-Dotson was elected. It was held under the theme ‘Strengthen CCL in the Struggle for Workers Rights and Freedom in the Changing Global Environment.’

The delegates also included First Vice President of NCTUB, Theresa Mortimer, and Stepheno Green.