Plac­ard-bear­ing TTPost work­ers took to the pave­ment yes­ter­day out­side their Pi­ar­co head of­fice to protest against a num­ber of com­plaints, in­clud­ing claims of the non-pay­ment of back­pay and the in­fringe­ment of work­ers' rights.One plac­ard stat­ed, "Man­age­ment at­tempt­ing to con­tract per­ma­nent po­si­tions that was ap­proved by Gov­ern­ment."An­oth­er read: "Frus­tra­tion, frus­tra­tion, frus­tra­tion with terms and con­di­tions."

Yes­ter­day, An­dre James, gen­er­al man­ag­er, sales and mar­ket­ing at TTPost, in a state­ment said unionised work­ers and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the T&T Postal Work­ers' Union (TTP­WU) pro­ceed­ed on in­dus­tri­al ac­tion in demon­stra­tion of the non-pay­ment of back­pay for the pe­ri­od Jan­u­ary 1, 2008 to De­cem­ber 31, 2010.

"In April 2013, the man­age­ment of TTPost and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the TTP­WU achieved the his­tor­i­cal sign­ing of the first col­lec­tive agree­ment be­tween TTPost and the recog­nised ma­jor­i­ty union at the Na­tion­al Mail Cen­tre in Pi­ar­co."Man­age­ment has sup­plied all re­quest­ed in­for­ma­tion for the pay­ment of these funds to the rel­e­vant par­ties and are cur­rent­ly await­ing the dis­burse­ment of funds.

"As a re­sult of in­dus­tri­al ac­tions by unionised work­ers to­day, nor­mal busi­ness op­er­a­tions have been af­fect­ed. TTPost apol­o­gis­es to its val­ued clien­tele for any in­con­ve­nience caused by these ac­tions," read the state­ment.