Port Workers at Kingston Freeport Terminal (KFTL) are reportedly on strike again following the suspension of two of their colleagues, allegedly over their association with the Port Supervisors’ Union.

The Port Supervisors’ Union (PSU), in a press release on Monday, said it had served notice to KFTL of industrial action slated to begin Saturday and end on Tuesday, calling on the company to lift the suspensions and let workers vote.

It follows tensions about a potential switch in union representation for the workers at the terminal, which culminated last month in a strike that was deemed illegal by KTFL. The workers were ordered back to work on October 23 by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal.

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The union says workers have kept the Tribunal’s order and kept the port working, while the company removes their representatives from the terminal on the verge of a hearing to settle the dispute regarding the representational rights poll.

It revealed that it served notice on Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of the industrial action and is demanding the reinstatement of the two workers associated with the Union and assurances that no further action will be taken against any worker on account of his or her association with the Union while the question of the workers’ representation is before the Industrial Disputes Tribunal.

The union says the notice follows the suspension of one worker on October 28, 2026 and of a second on Friday, November 6, 2026 while the first suspension was being addressed at the Ministry of Labour and the matter is still with the Ministry.

It stressed that both are among the workers who have been at the forefront of the effort to secure a ballot on union representation at the terminal.

“Each was removed from the port and instructed to have no contact with any other employee of the company. The Union has been informed that the company intends to suspend as many as ten workers whom it regards as the persons principally associated with the Union,” the statement said on Monday.

The union stressed that the workers at Kingston Freeport Terminal have done everything the law asks of them.

“They signed with the union of their choice, and they have waited sixteen months for a ballot. When the Tribunal ordered that there be no industrial action, they went back to work, and they have stayed there. The company’s answer has been to remove from the port, one at a time, the people who would speak for the Union among their colleagues, and to forbid them to speak to anyone. No ballot can be fair if that is allowed to continue,” the union said.