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Monday, February 17, 2025

Postal workers union rejects government's 4% to workers

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32 days ago
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Members of postal Workers Union and JTUM protest outside the Personnel Department office of the Chief Personnel Officer at Alexandra Street, Port-of-Spain yesterday.

Members of postal Workers Union and JTUM protest outside the Personnel Department office of the Chief Personnel Officer at Alexandra Street, Port-of-Spain yesterday.

KERWIN PIERRE

Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Postal Work­ers’ Union (TTP­WU), has re­ject­ed the TTPost’s wage of­fer for the 2014–2016 and 2017–2019 bar­gain­ing pe­ri­ods, call­ing it “far less than what we were ex­pect­ing.”

David Forbes said in a re­lease, the of­fer—2%, 0%, and 0% for the first pe­ri­od, and 0%, 0%, and 2% for the sec­ond—fails to ad­dress crit­i­cal is­sues, in­clud­ing the im­ple­men­ta­tion of an 18.6% Job Eval­u­a­tion and Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowances.

Forbes said the union re­mains “com­mit­ted to re­solv­ing all mat­ters rel­a­tive to the ne­go­ti­a­tions” and will sub­mit a counter-pro­pos­al by  Feb­ru­ary 17 2025.

He al­so crit­i­cised the choice of Drew Manor in San­ta Cruz as the venue for ne­go­ti­a­tions, cit­ing cost con­cerns. “From our ex­pe­ri­ence, TTPost has been say­ing they are un­able to treat with work­ers’ is­sues time­ly,” Forbes writes, adding that hold­ing meet­ings at the Na­tion­al Mail Cen­tre in Pi­ar­co would be more pru­dent. The union, he said, will “con­tin­ue to treat mat­ters as they come.” 

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