Click to view full size

TTPOST man­age­ment has re­ject­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Postal Work­ers’ Union’s (TTP­WU) 24% wage de­mand, call­ing it “ex­ces­sive” and “de­tached from eco­nom­ic re­al­i­ty.” The coun­terof­fer, cov­ered 2014-2016 and 2017-2019.

TTPOST warned that such an in­crease could threat­en the cor­po­ra­tion’s fu­ture and lead to job loss­es.

“This out­ra­geous 24% coun­ter­pro­pos­al is not on­ly im­prac­ti­cal but a cal­cu­lat­ed ma­neu­ver to stall ne­go­ti­a­tions and serve per­son­al in­ter­ests at the ex­pense of em­ploy­ees,” it said. Man­age­ment ar­gued the union’s ini­tial 18.6% de­mand was un­sus­tain­able, cit­ing the cor­po­ra­tion’s frag­ile fi­nances, de­clin­ing mail ser­vices, and eco­nom­ic chal­lenges.