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Akash Sama­roo

For­mer Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus is ac­cus­ing the cur­rent union head, Fe­l­isha Thomas, of hid­ing from her mem­bers. She is ad­vis­ing Thomas that si­lence is not an op­tion.

Guardian Me­dia has been un­able to con­tact Thomas for near­ly three weeks, a pe­ri­od dur­ing which sig­nif­i­cant de­vel­op­ments have un­fold­ed. These in­clude on­go­ing con­cerns sur­round­ing the pro­posed non-cash pay­ment of a por­tion of back­pay, com­plaints from Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (RHA) work­ers who did not re­ceive back­pay de­spite the PSA hav­ing re­quest­ed their in­clu­sion, and the even­tu­al par­tial pay­ment of ar­rears to pub­lic ser­vants.