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Carib Cement resume talks
Apr, 19 2012
(Caribbean) -- Anxious workers at the Caribbean Cement Company could hear today if they will receive a wage increase, as their union and the company’s management resume talks at the labour ministry.
The management is expected to return to the negotiation table today with a settlement package.
Those talks are now underway at the labour ministry.
The company’s management had agreed to review a settlement package for workers following a series of meetings over the past two weeks.
Employees at the company, who staged a sit-in last week, have threatened to take industrial action if the company does not make a favourable wage offer.
NWU Vice President Granville Valentine said the workers concerns have heightened after cement workers in Trinidad and Tobacco received a seven per cent wage increase recently:
He said it is critical that the ongoing wage negotiation is completed before the next round of discussions begins in another two months.
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