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Akash Sama­roo

The Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) has signed off on a ten per cent wage in­crease, a deal that will cost the State $2.6 bil­lion in back­pay and add $252 mil­lion an­nu­al­ly to the na­tion­al wage bill.

The agree­ment, which cov­ers two bar­gain­ing pe­ri­ods rang­ing be­tween 2014 and 2019, was signed be­tween Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al and NUGFW pres­i­dent gen­er­al Christo­pher Streete yes­ter­day at the CPO’s of­fice in Port-of-Spain.