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​​Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer yes­ter­day chal­lenged the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) to come with a prop­er of­fer to work­ers when both sides sit at the ne­go­ti­a­tion ta­ble for a piv­otal round of talks to­day.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Ogeer dis­missed TSTT’s wage pro­pos­al: 0-0-0 with no con­sol­i­da­tion of the cost-of-liv­ing al­lowance (CO­LA)—as an in­sult to the work­ers who kept the na­tion’s com­mu­ni­ca­tions in­fra­struc­ture alive through the pan­dem­ic and two ma­jor re­struc­tur­ing cy­cles.

“Ze­ro-ze­ro-ze­ro is not an of­fer,” Ogeer said.