TTPost workers in Tobago staged a protest outside of the company’s corporate shop at Wilson Road, Scarborough on Wednesday, demanding an 18.6 percent salary increase.
The workers say this is in keeping with the determination of a job evaluation exercise done more than a decade ago.
The placard welding workers said their appeals to the government have fallen on deaf ears.
TT Postal Workers’ Union president Shellon Trim, said the union has written to both Public Utilities Minister Marvin Gonzales – TTPost’s line minister – and Chief Personnel Officer Dr Daryl Dindial outlining their grievances, but is yet to receive a response.
Trim said the last letter to Gonzales was sent last year.
In Port of Spain, approximately 200 postal workers protested outside the office of Chief Personnel Officer Dr Daryl Dindial.
The action comes two weeks after the T&T Postal Workers Union (TTPWU) delivered a letter to the CPO demanding the implementation of a 2011 job evaluation. The evaluation includes recommendations for an 18.6 per cent increase in salaries.
TTPWU’s General Secretary David Forbes said the workers have not been paid although they have taken up the new job descriptions. He called out Dindial, Finance Minister Colm Imbert and Public Utilities Minister Marvin Gonzales for not responding to the workers’ requests.