T&T public servants bracing for industrial action
Published:Tuesday | January 4, 2011 | 1:39 PM
Trinidad and Tobago is now bracing for industrial action after the country's Public Service Union called for its membership to go on strike.
The Union, which has the support of other bargaining units, is protesting against a 5 per cent salary offer from the government.
The public servants are demanding a 15 per cent wage hike.
Finance Minister Winston Dookeran has warned that the planned industrial action would be illegal.
However, Watson Duke the president of the Public Service Union says he is not intimidated by the suggestion that the strike is illegal.