PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan 30, CMC – The Minister of Finance on Thursday announced that government has given the Administration at the University of the West Indies an improved offer for a wage increase of six percent for the six-year period August 2014 to July 2020.
The new offer will cost TT$23 million (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) per year in additional recurrent costs for UWI and result in backpay of $165 million, all of which the Government has agreed to pay on UWI’s behalf.
Over the past few weeks, the West Indian Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) launched a Red Revolution protest by marching to the office of principal Prof Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, to demand an increase.
Members were also urged to persist in withholding grades and shutting down all operations, including non-attendance at examination meetings.
This week was proposed to be Whitewash Week from January 27-31 which will see members wearing white in a week of “rest and reflection.”
From February 3-7, a Blackout Week was proposed with members wearing black all week.
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