By early next year, Cable & Wireless Communications and Columbus Communications — Liberty Global's telecommunications entities in Latin America and the Caribbean — are expected to operate solely under the umbrella Liberty LatAm and Caribbean (LiLAC).
This will follow LiLAC's split-off from Liberty Global, which is expected to be consummated with current executive vice-president and chief technology and innovation officer (CTIO) at Liberty Global Balan Nair, taking over as the chief executive officer (CEO) of LiLAC.
Not much information is available to customers of local Liberty Global companies CWC Communications and Columbus Communications, which currently operate as different entities under Liberty Global's ownership.
This situation has raised the anger of Caribbean trade unions representing LiLAC's workers across the region, including the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU), which represents staff in Jamaica.
BITU Vice-President Ruddy Thomas, who was in Grenada last week for a meeting of trade union representatives from Jamaica, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, and The Bahamas, said that they have established a global alliance with European colleagues who are members of UNI supported by unions in Belgium, The Netherlands, Panama, and Chile.
“During the deliberations, we noted the company's decision to restructure its various operations throughout the region, and what appears to be a deliberate avoidance of dialogue with the unions who represent these employees,” Thomas told the Jamaica Observer.
“We wish to remind the company that this type of behaviour does not augur well towards co-operation,” he added.
NO word on how this will impact local operations in the Cayman.
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