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Telecommunications provider Flow, has opened its newly remodelled corporate offices at Arnos Vale which was marked with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and recognition of employees.

Listening to the ongoing 2024 Budget debate, I was reminded of the title of a novel by the famous British author Charles Dickens that I read while still a young boy. It was entitled “A tale of two cities”. The reminder is based on the very disparate perceptions of the Vincentian reality put put forward by both sides of the House of Assembly, Government and Opposition. It reflects not only …

Employees of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers Cooperative Credit Union (SVGTCCU) are now covered by a new collective agreement, which was signed on September 11 between the SVGTCCU and the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers Union (CTAWU).

After months of negotiation, the Bank of St Vincent and the Grenadines (BOSVG) last Friday signed a new three-year Collective Agreement with the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers Union (CTAWU) which would see employees of the financial institution receiving an eight per cent salary increase. The Agreement, which is retroactive to November 1, 2021, is expected to be reflected in the salaries of the bank’s employees by later this year. …

By Renwick Rose History was made in St Vincent and the Grenadines on Saturday, May 1, 1975, when, for the first time since the early days of independent worker organization, four local trade unions came together for a joint commemoration of labour Day. During the late fifties and sixties, may day celebrations had been dominated by the rivalling political parties, Joshua’s Peoples Political party (PPP) and the Labour Party (SVLP) …

The Kingstown Co-operative Credit Union (KCCU), and the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers Union (CTAWU), last Thursday, February 23, signed a new three year collective agreement retroactive to January, 2022. The signing took place in the conference room of the KCCU building in Kingstown.

Republic Bank (EC) Limited and the Commercial Technical and Allied Workers Union (CTAWU), have concluded negotiations for a new three year collective agreement on behalf of workers at the financial institution. Managing Director of Republic Bank (EC) Limited, Michelle Palmer-Keizer and Joseph ‘Burns’ Bonadie, General Secretary of the Commercial, Technical and Allied Workers’ Union (CTAWU) announced the settlement of negotiations between both parties in a news release. The new agreement &he...

SEARCHLIGHT welcomes the agreement reached between the Government and public sector unions for wage and salary increases for public servants over the three-year period 2023-2025. It has saved the country industrial disputes and confrontations which we can ill afford at this time. The increases, 2.5 per cent for 2013, 2 per cent for 2014 and 2.5 per cent in 2015 will mean an increased financial burden on the government. In …

A SEVEN PERCENT salary increase which the government negotiated with trade unions is generous yet fiscally responsible, says Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves. “This salary increase stays within the boundaries of our fiscal responsibility framework. It is not an irresponsible increase in salaries while still being a generous increase in salaries,” the Minister said at a press conference at Cabinet room yesterday, September 22. [caption id="attachment_151032" align="alignno...

Government is seeking to set up a Negotiations Committee to hold further discussions and negotiations with unions that represent government workers in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). [caption id="attachment_157875" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Stewart Haynes, Executive Director of the National Insurance Services made a presentation on Pension Reform[/caption] This is one of the outcomes of a meeting between government and public sector unions on Thursday, Se...