The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union has raised con­cerns about TSTT’s new part­ner­ship with so­ca su­per­star Machel Mon­tano, ques­tion­ing how the com­pa­ny can en­ter a high-pro­file en­dorse­ment arrange­ment while cit­ing cash flow lim­i­ta­tions in on­go­ing wage ne­go­ti­a­tions.

In a state­ment dat­ed Feb­ru­ary 24, the union con­grat­u­lat­ed Mon­tano on his con­tin­ued cul­tur­al im­pact, de­scrib­ing him as a glob­al am­bas­sador for Trinidad and To­ba­go. It said it un­der­stood why TSTT, as a na­tion­al telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions provider, would align its brand with a promi­nent cul­tur­al fig­ure.

How­ev­er, the union said the part­ner­ship must be viewed against the back­drop of col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions for the pe­ri­ods 2020 to 2022 and 2023 to 2025.