The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) has ac­cept­ed the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) five per cent of­fer for the pe­ri­od 2020 to 2023 with a spread of one per cent, one per cent, three per cent which rep­re­sent a clo­sure of the gap by 18.2% per cent fol­lowed by the con­sol­i­da­tion of the Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance (CO­LA) and oth­er im­proved terms and con­di­tions for mem­bers of the Teach­ing Ser­vice.

CPO, Com­man­der Dr. Daryl Din­di­al, stat­ed that ne­go­ti­a­tions, which be­gan in No­vem­ber 2024 and con­tin­ued with sig­nif­i­cant tech­ni­cal sub-com­mit­tee work in­to the new year, were very chal­leng­ing.

He com­mend­ed TTUTA’s lead­er­ship for their per­sis­tence and pro­fes­sion­al­ism in ad­vanc­ing ar­gu­ments for their mem­ber­ship while al­so in­di­cat­ing he was al­so very hum­bled by their "rea­son­able­ness, ra­tio­nal­i­ty and even their un­der­stand­ing of the cur­rent macro­eco­nom­ic re­al­i­ties our na­tion is con­fronting."