{"id":180362,"date":"2017-03-14T15:26:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=180362"},"modified":"2017-03-14T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T19:26:35","slug":"dpsu-to-hold-solidarity-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/general\/dpsu-to-hold-solidarity-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"DPSU to hold solidarity rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_124566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124566\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124566\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letang.jpg 445w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letang-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letang said the rally will be held on Thursday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) will be holding a \u201csolidarity rally\u201d under the theme \u2018One Union Indivisible; What Hurts One Hurts All\u2019, to sensitize its membership on the challenges faced by employees concerning payments, working conditions and other matters of importance.<\/p>\n<p>The rally will take place on the DPSU grounds from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm on Thursday 16th March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>General Secretary of the union, Thomas Letang, stated that despite knowing that the challenges faced are \u201cbig\u201d, he believes that the \u2018fight\u2019 is a fight for all employees and citizens across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not see them (challenges) as adversaries but we see them as an important part of the journey towards equality. However, while we appreciate the role of the employer, we demand respect and fair treatment for workers, that is our mission as a trade union,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Letang, another aim of the rally is to \u201crevive consciousness of unity and collective responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what the DPSU propagates and advocates, to strive to dismantle the individuality and passiveness that plague our movement,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>It is the hope of the DPSU to \u201cignite a conflagration that will fire up our membership\u201d and make union success a better life for all workers and a reality for all workers, he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Letang noted that the rally will not only address concerns over salary, but also all other areas that affect public officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that there are other issues of national concern, which have affected public officers and will be discussed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The expectation of the DPSU with regards to the impact of the rally is to \u201ccreate a new consciousness, a new awareness among the membership that we can only make success if we are together,\u201d and to not simply sit and criticize without doing something to make a change.<\/p>\n<p>It also aims to solicit the support of every Dominican and that includes public servants and people who have a keen interest in the matters at hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is to get the general public to understand that it is not just sitting on the sidelines and criticizing the employees and trade unions, but for us to achieve a lot of the things we are looking at, we need the support of the public, and this is the reason why we are inviting not only our members but the general public, our supporters, to come and provide us with that support, that solidarity that is needed and is very very important,\u201d Letang said.<\/p>\n<p>He hopes that the rally will be a form of motivation for people to move out from \u201cthat cloud of fear\u201d and voice their concerns and \u201cstand up for their rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our responsibility to try as hard as we possibly can to eradicate that fear so that the people, our trade union members, will be able to stand up for their rights and let their voices be heard without any fear\u2026the fear of victimization,&#8217; he said. &#8220;People believe that \u2018okay I do not want to be seen; I do not want to be heard because I will be victimized\u2019 but that is where the issue of unity comes in. if we stick together we will make it, but if we are divided we are giving people the opportunity to do things that will affect us. The strength of many is the power of one, and what hurts one hurts all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) will be holding a \u201csolidarity rally\u201d under the theme \u2018One Union Indivisible; What Hurts One Hurts All\u2019, to sensitize its membership on the challenges faced by employees concerning payments, working conditions and other matters&#8230;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":124566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DPSU to hold solidarity rally - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/general\/dpsu-to-hold-solidarity-rally\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DPSU to hold solidarity rally - 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