THIS 4% NON-CONSOLIDATION OF COLA OFFER IS WORSE THAN A WAGE FREEZE! THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY COLA CONSOLIDATION BEFORE APPLYING THE 4% FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN HISTORY. THIS DRASTIC CHANGE TO THE FORMULA WILL BE FOREVER AND WILL IMPACT EVERY OTHER NEGOTIATIONS MOVING FORWARD TURNING THIS NEGOTIATIONS …
THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO ROB YOU OF $46,877! THEY DO NOT WANT TO CONSOLIDATE COLA BEFORE APPLYING THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE DO NOT BE FOOLED BY MONEY FOR CHRISTMAS CONSIDER YOUR CHILDREN AND CHILDREN’S CHILDREN! WE MUST REJECT THAT!
CHECK YOUR PAYSLIP!
YOU GET $225 AS A COST-OF-LIVING ALLOWANCE (COLA)
BUT HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TO THINK…. WHAT IS COLA?
THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO CHANGE THE FORMULA FOR CALCULATING SALARY INCREASES AND BACKPAY BY NOT CONSOLIDATING COLA.
WE MUST REJECT THAT!
Inflation Has Decimated The Value Of Public Officers’ Salaries.
This 4% Offer And Non-Consolidation Of Cola Will Not Come Close To Restoring Your 2013 Purchasing Power / Standard Of Living.
App. $620 Billion Spent In The Budget From 2014 To Present
But No Monies Set Aside To Pay Public Officers.
Monies To Public Officers Is Not About Affordability.
It Is About Priority!
They Starve The Public Service Of Resources
They Do Not Fill Vacancies
Then They Bad Talk You
And Pay You Lower Than Any Other Public Sector Worker
We respect the views of all members and will be guided by the majority position. The General Council’s decision to continue to reject the 4% offer was based on the sentiments of the majority.
We respect the views of all members and will be guided by the majority position. The General Council’s decision to continue to reject the 4% offer was based on the sentiments of the majority.
Do You Want To Take $81 A Month In Backpay For 10 Years? Do You Want To Give Up $46,877 In Backpay?
PSA Is Not The Only Union Who Has Not Settled
But Political Operatives Who Are So Called Trade Unionists Are Arguing The Employers’ Side For Public Officers To Accept This 4% Insult
The PSA in an effort to progress and settle negotiations for the outstanding bargaining periods have further proposed on behalf of monthly paid officers the following…
PSA President – Leroy Baptiste’s Labour Day Message 2023 At Charlie King Junction, Fyzabad On 19th June 2023.
On Monday 7th November 2022, the PSA attended Case Management Conference at the Industrial Court along with four other unions after the salary negotiations for public officers were referred to the Special Tribunal by the CPO and the Minister of Finance
Update on Negotiations for Revised Terms and Conditions of Employment for all Monthly Paid Officers of the Civil Service, Statutory Authorities and Tobago House of Assembly on October 26th 2022
Proposed salary scale based on the first offer of 2% over 8 years by the CPO to Public Officers.
The PSA met with the CPO on 19th May 2022 and received the counter proposal with respect to Public Officers.
