The T&T Postal Corporation (TTPost) must respond in the next ten days to the T&T Postal Workers' Union wage negotiation proposals for the period 2008 to 2010. The union warns if TTPost's management fails to respond within ten days it will be "at their peril." T&T Postal Workers' Union general secretary Reginald Crichlow said the union has not ruled out industrial action. He was speaking yesterday at a news conference held at union's headquarters, Eastern Main Road, El Dorado. Crichlow said the union had written TTPost management earlier this week demanding it provides a counter proposal and set a date for engaging in negotiations.
He said: "Failing to so do, is at their peril because this organisation knows our worth and our responsibility." Crichlow claimed the union had submitted its proposals for the 2008 to 2010 collective bargaining period last year, and to date management has failed to respond. He said the union was prepared to engage in meaningful discussions with TTPost's management. He said when compared to the international earnings of postal workers globally, TTPost workers were being paid close to 23 per cent less. He said his union was in full support of the trade union movement's cause for removing the five per cent wage cap. Calls up to late yesterday to TTPost managing director Sheldon Cyrus proved futile. A message was also left with Cyrus' assistant Roxanne Gopaul. However, there has been no response.