Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Port Au­thor­i­ty work­ers are de­mand­ing the re­main­ing 80 per cent of their out­stand­ing back­pay and over­time, now es­ti­mat­ed at ap­prox­i­mate­ly $337 mil­lion, while press­ing the Port Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PATT) Board to set­tle four long-de­layed col­lec­tive agree­ments dat­ing from 2014 to the present.

Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al Michael An­nisette yes­ter­day warned that work­ers, who are still be­ing paid ac­cord­ing to 2014 wage rates, are grow­ing in­creas­ing­ly frus­trat­ed and could take mat­ters in­to their own hands if the PATT Board fails to re­spond to the union by Wednes­day.