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Members of the Trinidad and Tobago Postal Workers Union have launched a series of pickets on the offices of Stephanie Lewis, the government’s Chief Personnel Officer, after collective bargaining talks with TTPost have stalled.

“We are totally fed up and disgruntled with the manner in how she wishes to treat the postal workers who there labouring, when they take home 2005, 2006 or 2007 salaries. We are yet to receive our offer. We are yet to get that directly from TTPost who indeed gets the directive from the CPO as the secretariat to the Interior Ministry,” said Reginald Chrichlow, President of Trinidad and Tobago Postal Workers Union.



The union had opened us discussions with TTPost in early October to negotiate a new agreement concerning wages. The union contends that the CPO’s failure to act is placing postal workers at the bottom rung of public servants in terms of pay and conditions. It is calling on the CPO and TTPost to negotiate in good faith and to recognize the positive evaluations the staff have achieved since TTPost’s inception.