Labour Day in Trinidad and Tobago
Labour Day in Trinidad and Tobago is held on June 19. This event in the second decade of the month June is annual. 
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June 19th 1973 was the first time that Trinidad and Tobago celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. It is the anniversary of the Butler Oilfield Riots of 1937 when the on-going tensions between employers and workers came to a violent head.
Prior to the riots, worker abuse, underpayment and racism were common place in many sectors throughout the country. Workers recognised a grave disparity between the work they put out and their remuneration as well as their working conditions which translated to a poor standard of living. This growing sense of dissatisfaction among workers gave rise to leaders such as Captain Arthur Andrew Cipriani, Adrian Cola Rienzi, Elma Francois, George Weekes, Albert Gomes, C.L.R. James and Tubal Uriah Buzz Butler.
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