Akash Sama­roo

Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste has clar­i­fied that the $2.8 bil­lion be­ing sought by the Gov­ern­ment in the mid-year bud­get re­view is in­tend­ed to fund salary in­creas­es for pub­lic sec­tor work­ers whose unions have al­ready con­clud­ed wage ne­go­ti­a­tions, and not for new salary set­tle­ments.

And ac­cord­ing to the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO), the funds will be used to ho­n­our agree­ments reached with the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA), the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA), the Amal­ga­mat­ed Work­ers Union and the Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers Trade Union (CGW­TU).