Quantcast
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 10203

Postal workers back on the job

Postal workers returned to work as promised yesterday.

Contacted around midday yesterday, president of the Postal Workers’ Union, David Forbes, confirmed operations had resumed at the nation’s only mail delivery service.

He said: “They are back to work as promised. We were given a promise by Minister Ancil Antoine that they would be paid and we are awaiting that.”

At a meeting with Antoine last week, the workers were assured that they would receive some of the money by the end of this week.

During last Thursday’s post-Cabinet news briefing, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Stuart Young gave an undertaking that 50 per cent of the back pay would be paid by August 31.

Approximately 1,200 employees engaged in sick out action last Thursday and Friday, to protest yet another delay in the settlement of their back pay.

The workers are owed $49 million for the period 2011 to 2013.

Pressed to say what the next course of action would be if the workers did not receive any money by Friday, Forbes said: “We will have to wait and see what they mandate if this does not materialise.”

Forbes sought to reassure people awaiting their pension and welfare cheques that the workers were “working assiduously to regularise the processing and delivery procedures.”

He explained the delays were caused by the long holiday weekend which followed Friday’s industrial action, coupled with the necessary checks and balances that had to be done before the cheques could be processed for delivery.

Forbes said the workers had thrown their support behind the PNM during the run-up to the last general election but now believed the Government had abandoned them.

TTPost’s managing director, Reynold Baldeosingh, confirmed that operations had resumed and that some “over the counter transactions” had been completed during the business day yesterday as customers came in to collect their cheques personally.

He echoed Forbes’s sentiments that the remainder of the cheques would be delivered during the course of this week.


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 10203

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>