JTUM tells PM: Take 4 per cent – not a cent more

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JTUM tells PM: Take 4 per cent – not a cent more

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News JTUM president Ancel Roget - IF politicians are insisting on a wage hike, then they must take the four per cent they offered to public sector workers, and not a cent more. “You don’t deserve more than four per cent,” Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) president, Ancel Roget said on February 19. If there is insistence, he suggested then maybe it is time law-abiding and right-thinking citizens take action. During […]

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