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Members of the Trinidad and Tobago Postal Workers Union staged a protest demonstration at a national mail center in Piarco on Friday 30 August with a number of demands. They called for back pay resulting from arrears accrued from a previously negotiated agreement covering 2008 - 2010. The union president, David Forbes, was quoted by T&T Newsday, saying "We have already reached 2013, which makes it six years. We haven’t started negotiating for the period of 2011 to 2013 as yet, and 2013 is almost up. There is no understanding as to when exactly the workers will receive their arrears.”



The workers were also demonstrating against unsanitary conditions in the workplace, including a lack of running water and extreme heat at work with no air conditioning and insufficient rest periods and poor ventilation.