JUTC workers on strike

Hundreds of workers at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC,) are now on strike.



The employees stopped working this morning on the first day of the new school term, leaving many students and teachers in the corporate area and St. Catherine stranded for hours.



JUTC workers are protesting against the failure of the company’s management to pay deductions from their salaries to lending agencies elsewhere.



President of the University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU), Lambert Brown, said the workers have been embarrassed, because the company has not been paying on the loans that were deducted from their salaries.



Mr. Brown said the deductions amounted to $100 million