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The Contractors and General Workers Trade Union is demanding the Minister of Finance pay money owed to hundreds of employees of the San Fernando City Corporation before Christmas.

The union says after settling with the CPO to level-up wage rates and then signing on for a 4% increase just days before the general election, they are yet to receive a cent.

President of the union Ermine De Bique-Meade says it cannot be that the PSA signs two days ago, and those workers get payment before them.

Reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh attended a press conference at the union’s San Fernando office this morning, and tells us more.

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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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