00:00We have also negotiated a great deal for our members.
00:06We want our share of the pie.
00:10We concluded our negotiation more than five months now.
00:16PSA concluded their negotiations two days ago.
00:20On April 24th, 2025, four days before the general election,
00:30the Contractors and General Workers Trade Union signed an agreement with the CPO
00:35to level up the wages of its workers who were for decades paid below standard rates
00:40and then a 4% increase across two collective bargaining periods, 2014-16 and 2017-19.
00:49The CPO assured us that new wage rates would be implemented by August 2025.
01:01Arrest would be paid before Christmas 2025.
01:07But August passed, then September, October and November,
01:12all while in constant communication with the CPO.
01:15The minister was aware before the budget and we were told this was factoring in the budget.
01:23Now that the budget has been read and they have settled down,
01:28they have forgotten about the daily paid workers of the San Fernando City Corporation.
01:33We are not asking for anything extra and we are calling on the prime minister to intervene
01:42because the workers need their money.
01:47Debeek Mead congratulated the PSA president for a hard 4-10% agreement
01:53but says her workers should not be sidelined while others jump the line.
01:58The workers are demanding, if not all their arrears, but part of their arrears,
02:05all now before the 22nd of December 2025.
02:11Cash, cash. Nothing else than cash.
02:17Because they can't take anything else to the grocery.
02:20On Thursday, the union president sent this message to the government.
02:24I want the minister to remember this scholar.
02:30This scholar sat around the table and had discussions with him.
02:39So it cannot be of convenience.
02:44When you all needed us, we were there.
02:47We need you all now.
02:49I need you all to pay my numbers.
02:51Cindy Ragubatika Singh, TV6 News.
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