WASA Acting CEO holds inaugural meeting with union leaders

Act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), Jee­van Joseph, con­vened his first of­fi­cial meet­ing with the lead­er­ship of the Au­thor­i­ty’s three recog­nised trade unions to­day, Wednes­day 2 Ju­ly, 2025, at WASA’s Head Of­fice in St Joseph.

Joseph, ac­com­pa­nied by mem­bers of the Ex­ec­u­tive Evo­lu­tion Team, met with Fe­l­isha Thomas, Pres­i­dent of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA); Christo­pher Streete, Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW); and Deryck Richard­son, Pres­i­dent of the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA), along with their re­spec­tive ex­ec­u­tive teams.

The meet­ing marked the com­mence­ment of for­mal en­gage­ment be­tween the new WASA ex­ec­u­tive and the unions. Dis­cus­sions were de­scribed as cor­dial and con­struc­tive, with a fo­cus on a num­ber of long­stand­ing in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions mat­ters. These in­clud­ed un­re­solved work­er griev­ances, is­sues re­lat­ed to pro­mo­tions and ap­point­ments, and the sta­tus of ne­go­ti­a­tions for out­stand­ing bar­gain­ing pe­ri­ods.

Joseph ac­knowl­edged the es­sen­tial role of the unions as strate­gic part­ners in the on­go­ing trans­for­ma­tion of the Au­thor­i­ty. He re­it­er­at­ed Man­age­ment’s com­mit­ment to re­shap­ing WASA in­to a more ef­fi­cient, sus­tain­able, and cus­tomer-cen­tric or­gan­i­sa­tion, with par­tic­u­lar em­pha­sis on the eq­ui­table dis­tri­b­u­tion of wa­ter to all com­mu­ni­ties.

The par­ties agreed to main­tain on­go­ing di­a­logue through a struc­tured se­ries of reg­u­lar meet­ings, aimed at ad­dress­ing un­re­solved is­sues and im­prov­ing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty across the Au­thor­i­ty.