Amal­ga­mat­ed Work­ers’ Union (AWU) pres­i­dent Michael Pren­tice has ac­cused the State of “bla­tant dis­crim­i­na­tion in the worst way,” af­ter claim­ing that Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion work­ers re­main with­out agreed salary in­creas­es and back­pay, de­spite oth­er pub­lic sec­tor groups al­ready re­ceiv­ing their ad­just­ments.

Speak­ing at a me­dia con­fer­ence yes­ter­day, Pren­tice said ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,600 dai­ly paid work­ers at the cor­po­ra­tion are still wait­ing on in­creas­es that were agreed un­der ne­go­ti­a­tions signed in 2025.

He said the union was among the first bar­gain­ing units to ac­cept the Gov­ern­ment’s five per cent wage pack­age un­der the last ad­min­is­tra­tion cy­cle, along­side oth­er unions such as the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion and the Con­trac­tors and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Trade Union, both of which have since be­gun re­ceiv­ing in­creas­es and ar­rears.