Mahabir-Wyatt: Expect pushback on SRC wage-hike proposals – Trin

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Mahabir-Wyatt: Expect pushback on SRC wage-hike proposals – Trin

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Activist and former senator Diana Mahabir-Wyatt - File photo by Roger Jacob ACTIVIST and former senator Diana Mahabir-Wyatt expects a lot of pushback in the event that Cabinet opts to accept the wage-hike proposals in the 113th and 117th reports of the Salaries Review Commission (SRC), she told Newsday on Tuesday. She said politically it was not a good time for such large increases, after many public workers recently had […]

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