Interesting indeed. Pre-emptive threats by the NIA is what caused the change 
of plan, not "a careful and thoughtful analysis." Go negotiate or else . . . 
!! God help a country where workers cannot demand their civil rights and are 
coerced into "negotiating" for them. What this leads to is the humiliation 
of the workers involved, a self-repression of their humiliation and anger, 
and its eventual impromptu explosion into random violence sometime in the 
future. Imposing a peace of the iron grid is one of the worst blunders 
repeatedly committed by dictatorships. To create a genuine and lasting 
peace, public grievances need to be freely expressed and intelligently dealt 
with, not forcefully clamped shut. But of course the Jammeh regime is too 
clever to know any of this uncommon sense.

Baba


>From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: After a careful and thoughtful analysis ...
>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:58:24 -0400
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>Interesting read.
>
>Malanding
>
>Courtesy of thepoint.gm
>
>
>Following Conclave with NIA
>Dock workers Call off Proposed Strike Action
>Monday 27th August 2007
>
>By Alhagie Mbye
>
>The Dock and Maritime Workers Union has finally decided to tread the line 
>of
>dialogue instead of confrontation following a meeting held at the National
>Intelligence Agency headquarters in Banjul sometime last week, The Point 
>can
>confirm.
>
>The dock workers who were poised to embark on an industrial strike on 1st
>September have reportedly decided to call off their planned industrial
>action and resolved to engage the Gambia Ports Authority in a roundtable
>discussion with a view to reaching an agreeable compromise.
>
>According to our source, during the said meting at the NIA headquarters, 
>the
>upper echelon of the union was given two options by the agency: to either 
>go
>back to their stakeholders to engage them in dialogue so as to address the
>matter in a peaceful manner or to go ahead with the strike and face the 
>full
>consequence of the repercussion of their action.
>
>Consequently, after a careful and thoughtful analysis, the representatives
>of the aggrieved employees then deemed it wise to choose the former option,
>thus calling off the planned strike in the interest of peace in the 
>country.
>
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