New­ly-ap­point­ed The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) pres­i­dent Crys­tal Bevin Ashe says he wants to re­turn to the ne­go­ti­a­tion ta­ble to ad­just the wage agree­ment his pre­de­ces­sor signed off on with the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment.

Speak­ing yes­ter­day, hours af­ter de­feat­ing Mar­tin Lum Kin in Tues­day’s elec­tion, Ashe said he hoped the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress, through the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO), would be amenable to such ac­tion, as he said they were look­ing at the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment’s in­di­ca­tion that will ho­n­our its promise to start ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion at 10 per cent.

“We would have seen what the Pub­lic Ser­vice (As­so­ci­a­tion) would have got­ten and so on and we’re hop­ing that the present Gov­ern­ment would be kind enough, such that they would be will­ing to re­turn to the ne­go­ti­at­ing ta­ble with TTUTA and rat­i­fy that. That’s our hope more or less.”