Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas yes­ter­day put the union’s protest ac­tion at the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) on hold, af­ter Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath com­mit­ted Gov­ern­ment to set­tling the out­stand­ing pro­pos­als for some 2,800 month­ly-paid work­ers. How­ev­er, she is warn­ing that the union will re­sume in­dus­tri­al ac­tion if Gov­ern­ment fails to de­liv­er.

Thomas made the rev­e­la­tion af­ter Padarath met with the PSA, WASA CEO Roshan Ban­wah and oth­er ex­ec­u­tives yes­ter­day morn­ing, fol­low­ing two days of protest by work­ers out­side the au­thor­i­ty’s com­pound.

Thomas said the min­is­ter’s in­ter­ven­tion re­sult­ed in a com­mit­ment by WASA to get the union’s wage pro­pos­als to the min­istry by the end of the week.