The Pioneer Food Cannery (PFC) has dismissed 18 senior staff who laid down their tools to compel management to allow them to join the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

According to a source close to PFC, about 40 senior staff at the factory decided to join the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) so as to bargain for improved conditions of service. 19 of them wrote a letter and 18 signed it to the management that they would go on strike if they were not allowed to join the ICU.

The management, on Monday December 3 wrote to summarily dismiss those who signed the letter and made sure that they were not allowed to enter the factory the following day.

Meanwhile, junior workers have sent a warning to the PFC management to reverse its decision or else they would advise themselves.