The Minister of Finance in Trinidad and Tobago 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 per year in additional recurrent costs for UWI and result in retroactive pay of $165 million, all of which the government has agreed to pay on UWI's behalf.
Over the last few weeks, the West Indian Group of University Teachers launched a Red Revolution protest by marching to the office of principal of the St. Augustine Campus, Professor 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.
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