NTUCB Launching Documentary on Sixty Years of Advocacy

For sixty years, the NTUCB has been one of the loudest voices for Belizean workers, pushing for better rights, stronger protections, and a seat at the table when national decisions are made. This month, the National Trade Union Congress of Belize is marking that milestone with a special anniversary event and the premiere of a documentary tracing six decades of labor advocacy, collective bargaining, and social dialogue. President Ella Waight says the celebration is not only about looking back at what the union movement has achieved, but also about raising support to keep that work going for the next generation of Belizean workers.

 

Ella Waight, President, National trade Union Congress of Belize

“On the thirteenth of July, the National Trade Union Congress of Belize will be celebrating sixty years of advocacy for workers’ rights. That is actually six decades of working to ensure that workers in Belize are protected, especially under Labor Act, especially when it comes to their collective bargaining agreements, and to ensure that whenever we hear the word tripartite, that we have – that we ensure that we are representing workers through social dialogue. So sixty years of work will be celebrated on the eighteenth of July in Belize City at Inspiration Center. Now what we’ll be doing is that we have hired someone to do a documentary for us. It should encompass the sixty years of work. So we’re asking persons who wish to attend to make a contribution of twenty dollars that in- that would include a small snack box and a drink and then we start to, to ensure that we continue the work of the NTUCB. So another sixty years of continuing this work that we do to ensure that we protect workers will happen.”

 

The NTUCB will host a similar screening in Belmopan on July twenty-fifth at the UB Auditorium.

 

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