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Multi-million-dollar deal ends nine-year wage impasse at power company in Trinidad

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Scores of PowerGen workers will take home additional pay in time for Christmas. (Photo: PowerGen website)

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct 31, CMC – About 150 workers at PowerGen, the largest independent power producer in Trinidad and Tobago, are expected to receive outstanding wage payments by December 15, following a TT$66.1 million (US$9.8 million) settlement between the company and the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU), ending nine and a half years of unresolved negotiations.

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