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UWM president leaves Saipan for good
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Posted on Jan 05 2009
Irene Tantiado, president of the United Workers Movement, has left the CNMI for good.
According to Bridge Capital, LLC, where she is employed as comptroller, Tantiado had been deployed to a new assignment in Laos.
She could not be contacted for comment as of yesterday.
Her office confirmed she was scheduled to leave yesterday morning but could not issue any details about it.
However, a source disclosed that Tantiado would work as a manager for a casino there.
Tandiado had been at the forefront in the struggle for the granting of a legitimate immigration status to long-term alien workers, immediate relative of Freely Associated States and U.S. citizens, and all others who may be affected when the federal government takes over local immigration in June 2009.
She was a former president of the United Coalition of Workers but bolted out to form the UWM.
She called herself an advocate for workers’ rights and has also taken on issues critical to the CNMI’s population of foreign workers such as the needs of foreign parents with children who have disabilities and the failure of some local insurance companies to pay workers money they are owed through surety bonds.
