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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

TTPOST rejects TTPWU’s 24% wage demand

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Otto Carrington
160 days ago
20250220

TTPOST man­age­ment has re­ject­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Postal Work­ers’ Union’s (TTP­WU) 24% wage de­mand, call­ing it “ex­ces­sive” and “de­tached from eco­nom­ic re­al­i­ty.” The coun­terof­fer, cov­ered 2014-2016 and 2017-2019.

TTPOST warned that such an in­crease could threat­en the cor­po­ra­tion’s fu­ture and lead to job loss­es.

“This out­ra­geous 24% coun­ter­pro­pos­al is not on­ly im­prac­ti­cal but a cal­cu­lat­ed ma­neu­ver to stall ne­go­ti­a­tions and serve per­son­al in­ter­ests at the ex­pense of em­ploy­ees,” it said. Man­age­ment ar­gued the union’s ini­tial 18.6% de­mand was un­sus­tain­able, cit­ing the cor­po­ra­tion’s frag­ile fi­nances, de­clin­ing mail ser­vices, and eco­nom­ic chal­lenges.

“We will not be co­erced in­to reck­less agree­ments that could crip­ple TTPOST and en­dan­ger liveli­hoods,” it said, urg­ing em­ploy­ees to re­ject di­vi­sive tac­tics.

TTP­WU Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al David Forbes dis­missed TTPOST’s state­ment as “mis­chief,” clar­i­fy­ing that the 24% in­crease was not across the board but split—13% for 2014-2016 and 9% for 2017-2019. He ac­cused TTPOST of bad-faith ne­go­ti­a­tions, cit­ing a staff memo is­sued be­fore for­mal talks. “These ac­tions de­lib­er­ate­ly frus­trate both ne­go­ti­a­tions and work­ers,” he said.

In Jan­u­ary 2025, TTP­WU re­ject­ed a pro­posed 4% salary in­crease, call­ing it “far less than ex­pect­ed.”

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