Akash Sama­roo

De­spite the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) claim­ing it re­ceived a “for­mal” ten per cent wage-in­crease “of­fer” from the Of­fice of the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) last Fri­day, Guardian Me­dia has been re­li­ably in­formed that no such of­fer was made.

Af­ter a meet­ing be­tween the union and Act­ing CPO Wendy Bar­ton on Fri­day, Thomas tri­umphant­ly de­clared, “I’m hap­py to say to the mem­ber­ship of the PSA this af­ter­noon that an­oth­er promise made is an­oth­er promise de­liv­ered. We have in our hand, de­liv­ered by Act­ing CPO Miss Wendy Bar­ton, an of­fer of 10 per cent, which the PSA will be re­spond­ing to by this evening be­cause, as we have said, our main aim is to en­sure that we close these ne­go­ti­a­tions and put some monies in our mem­bers’ pock­ets by Christ­mas, and that stands.”