PUBLIC Services Association (PSA) president Felisha Thomas says the union is ready to begin negotiations immediately following the Finance Minister’s announcement during the October 13 budget presentation of a revised ten per cent wage offer to settle long-outstanding negotiations.

"This is the administration holding to their commitment, so I have already written to the CPO proposing dates as early as this Thursday (October 16) for us to get around the table so that we could treat with the workers’ business," Thomas told Newsday after the budget presentation.

"No time is being wasted on the PSA’s end. Absolutely not. Our membership has waited long enough, and there should be no more time wasted in settling these negotiations."