A ma­jor show­down is brew­ing in the pub­lic sec­tor, with both the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) and the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) warn­ing that the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed 10 per cent wage set­tle­ment with the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion of­fers lit­tle com­fort to oth­er em­ploy­ees in the state sec­tor.

“We will not be qui­et. We will not be si­lenced. TTUTA will not be si­lenced,” vowed TTUTA pres­i­dent Crys­tal Bevon Ashe.

The two unions rep­re­sent­ing tens of thou­sands of work­ers, claimed the State’s re­cent pos­ture amounts to in­creas­ing in­sta­bil­i­ty, dis­re­spect, and fi­nan­cial strain on pub­lic of­fi­cers head­ing in­to Christ­mas.