PSA, CPO in marathon final talks on 10% wage hike

Days af­ter the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dar­ryl Din­di­al agreed on a ten per cent wage in­crease for pub­lic ser­vants, the fi­nal dis­cus­sions over the de­tails be­hind the in­crease con­tin­ued late in­to last night.

On Fri­day, Din­di­al con­firmed that an agree­ment was reached with the union and its pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas.

The Cab­i­net is now ex­pect­ed to rat­i­fy the agree­ment when a note is tak­en be­fore Par­lia­ment to­day.

How­ev­er, Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the de­tails sur­round­ing the wage hike re­mained un­re­solved as staff from the CPO’s of­fice con­tin­ued work­ing on ham­mer­ing out the fi­nal de­tails up to 8.30 pm yes­ter­day.

Guardian Me­dia ini­tial­ly vis­it­ed the CPO’s Alexan­dra Street, St Clair of­fice just af­ter 10 am yes­ter­day, but of­fi­cials said the sign­ing of the agree­ment would take place lat­er that evening, sug­gest­ing the meet­ing would hap­pen at around 6 pm.

Re­porters re­turned to the of­fice short­ly af­ter 6 pm but no ac­tiv­i­ty was seen up to 9 pm.

Guardian Me­dia at­tempt­ed to con­tact Din­di­al and Thomas sev­er­al times yes­ter­day evening but re­ceived no re­sponse up to press time. - Shane Su­perville