The Amal­ga­mat­ed Work­ers Union has tak­en Gov­ern­ment’s five per­cent wage in­crease of­fer.

This was con­firmed by the Of­fice of the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer in a state­ment on Tues­day evening.

“The Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO), Com­man­der Dr. Daryl Din­di­al and the Amal­ga­mat­ed Work­ers Union signed off on the col­lec­tive agree­ment for the 5% salary in­crease cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od 2020 to 2022, along with the con­sol­i­da­tion of the Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA), ef­fec­tive Oc­to­ber 1, 2023 and oth­er mar­ket rate based salary ad­just­ments,” the state­ment said.