The Steel Work­ers’ Union of T&T has signed a nine per cent in­crease in salaries for work­ers at Na­tion­al Flour Mills Ltd.

The col­lec­tive agree­ment for the pe­ri­od 2018-2022 was of­fi­cial­ly signed on Fri­day and was led by the SWUTT Pres­i­dent Tim­o­thy Bai­ley and NFM CEO Ian Mitchell.

"The union would like to thank the CEO and Man­age­ment of NFM along with its con­sul­tant Court­ney Mc Nish for agree­ing to terms that the union con­sid­ers fair in the cur­rent en­vi­ron­ment," a post from SWUTT stat­ed.

"The union al­so thanks the mem­bers of its ne­go­ti­a­tions team and Con­cise Me­di­a­tion and Con­sul­ta­tion Lim­it­ed (HR/IR con­sul­tan­cy firm) for its re­search and back­room sup­port which made this agree­ment pos­si­ble," it stat­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to SWUTT, the agree­ment will re­alise a nine per cent in­crease for work­ers over the 2018-2022 pe­ri­od with im­prove­ments in the: va­ca­tion al­lowance, gas mileage al­lowance, re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and ve­hi­cle up­keep al­lowance, sub­sis­tence al­lowance, prod­uct al­lowance and oth­er en­hance­ment re­alised.

The SWUTT stat­ed that im­prove­ments were al­so made with re­spect to sev­er­ance, pa­ter­ni­ty, pro­mo­tion and act­ing for work­ers.

"The Union looks for­ward to work­ing with its mem­bers and the com­pa­ny to make NFM the leader of its field in T&T, the re­gion, and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly," SWUTT stat­ed.