The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) has ac­cept­ed the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer’s (CPO) five per cent of­fer for the pe­ri­od 2020 to 2023, spread at one per cent, one per cent and three per cent. The Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA) was al­so ad­just­ed to $51 from Oc­to­ber 31, 2023.

The CPO said the in­crease rep­re­sents a clo­sure of 18.2 per cent in the com­pa­ra­ble mar­ket salary rate for teach­ers. The Teach­ing Ser­vice utilis­es the Ex­ter­nal Labour Mar­ket Sur­vey to as­sess wages.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, CPO Dr Daryl Din­di­al said ne­go­ti­a­tions, which be­gan in No­vem­ber 2024 and con­tin­ued with sig­nif­i­cant tech­ni­cal sub-com­mit­tee work in­to the new year, were very chal­leng­ing.