URP workers plead for outstanding salaries

With this upcoming Friday marking the fifth fortnight that URP workers in the San Fernando area have not been paid, some URP workers turned to Newsday for assistance.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the workers, many of them single mothers, say they have been working for the past few months expecting that they would be paid but to no avail.

Many of them say they lack the required academic qualifications that would enable them to get another job and so depend entirely on the wages from URP.

The majority of these workers are also single parents.

The distressed workers say despite their many complaints to the relevant authorities, they are only being fed lies.

They say they now have to resort to borrowing money to get to and from work and to buy groceries. However, despite not being paid, they are going to work every day.

“Look at how the Prime Minister gone and come back healthy,” one worker said. “Everybody in the government getting paid and look how us poor people suffering.”