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Two for­mer pres­i­dents of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) are open­ly crit­i­cis­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s ar­rears ne­go­ti­a­tion process, ar­gu­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has not been ful­ly trans­par­ent with the pub­lic.

Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus and Wat­son Duke, speak­ing sep­a­rate­ly to Guardian Me­dia, ex­pressed con­cern that PSA pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas may not be in the strongest po­si­tion to de­fend work­ers’ in­ter­ests, warn­ing that pub­lic of­fi­cers are be­ing steered to­ward a set­tle­ment heav­i­ly weight­ed in non-cash com­po­nents.

Bap­tiste-Primus di­rect­ly chal­lenged the Prime Min­is­ter’s claim that the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) op­er­ates in­de­pen­dent­ly.