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The Water and Sewerage Authority (the Authority) advises customers in parts of Central and South West Trinidad, who are presently experiencing low water pressures or in some cases no water that this is as a result of repair work being done at the Point Lisas Desalination Plant.
The Desalination Company of Trinidad and Tobago – DESALCOTT owned and operated facility, which normally supplies WASA with 40 million gallons of water per day (mgd), has indicated that while repairs are taking place production has been reduced to 25 mgd. These works are scheduled to be completed on, Friday 10th December 2021.
Fire dey MC they all vote red government so let dem take bull.Rovin wrote:i now seeing on tv6 wasa workers getting orn wassy over sick leave pay issues ....
Cantmis wrote:Sick leave pay ?
Redman,Redman wrote:Typical union creep in a state enterprise.
Successive govts concede more and more to keep political peace, until the workers get paid for doing less.
-Bloated HR roll
-Asinine compensation and benefits that strangling company.
- Poor performance against international peers
Crappy service.
State enterprises for the win.
hover11 wrote:Redman,Redman wrote:Typical union creep in a state enterprise.
Successive govts concede more and more to keep political peace, until the workers get paid for doing less.
-Bloated HR roll
-Asinine compensation and benefits that strangling company.
- Poor performance against international peers
Crappy service.
State enterprises for the win.
WASA has been a political tool since inception with over 3000 workers overstaffed within the organization. Yet even after such proclamation was made, no cuts were made to aggravate the fan base and maintain the status quo
Question is, how long can this continue ?Redman wrote:hover11 wrote:Redman,Redman wrote:Typical union creep in a state enterprise.
Successive govts concede more and more to keep political peace, until the workers get paid for doing less.
-Bloated HR roll
-Asinine compensation and benefits that strangling company.
- Poor performance against international peers
Crappy service.
State enterprises for the win.
WASA has been a political tool since inception with over 3000 workers overstaffed within the organization. Yet even after such proclamation was made, no cuts were made to aggravate the fan base and maintain the status quo
Like CEPEP, I think we get 25 cents on the dollar in value for every $1 WASA cost us.
Are you really going to demonize the average wasa worker by using a simple average to insinuate he works for 17k a month? I agree that wasa needs to go the way of petrotrin but to paint everyone with a broad brush is quite disappointing especially from you.agent007 wrote:The following 2+ year old data may need to be fact checked:
WASA spends $1.1b on salaries alone in a year. That equates to $91.475M a month spread across 5150 workers. In other words, the average salary is $17,762.14 per month.
In 10 years, wasa received $10b in subventions from the treasury.
Wasa is over staffed by 2000 employees and their OT payout is $126M. So that $17k a month figure above does not include OT.
Total expenditure back in 2018 was $2.88b yet revenue over the same period was $709M.
Lastly, their debt position at the time was $5.37b
No wasa employee has any right to protest because they are part of an inefficient model that promotes corruption and nepotism. What value do they provide to the people of this country?
These entities are bleeding our treasury at a phenomenal rate. No patch can fix this. We need surgical intervention here! They should thank God that they have a job because right now it have families going to bed tonight with hungry bellies.
Imagine the countless neighbors who know what going on next door and they cook a little extra food for the family to eat and for the children to get something sustainable so that they can perform at school. How many fathers and mothers eating one small quarter of roti and butter for dinner or nothing at all so that the kids could eat a little better?
Some of us have no idea what kind of suffering people going through yet we always want more and more. If the country or organization cannot even afford to operate let alone pay salaries, you will come in these times to ask for more this and that and better this and that?
Whatever happened to taking one for the team all in the name of patriotism? Aren’t we all in this together?
They overstaffed by 3000 people this has been a long time coming, imagine ppl paying their wasa bill and can't get a decent supply of water. That could never be rightRovin wrote:who bankrupt it though ? d ordinary workers, d managers or govt who doe decades managed d whole thing
i remember jes a few yrs ago speaking to 1 of d ground level foreman who said sometimes they dont even have pipe glue to do dey wuk & does feel sorry for ppl & dip into their own pockets to buy glue trying to do job so ppl cud get water ....
Rovin wrote:who bankrupt it though ? d ordinary workers, d managers or govt who doe decades managed d whole thing
i remember jes a few yrs ago speaking to 1 of d ground level foreman who said sometimes they dont even have pipe glue to do dey wuk & does feel sorry for ppl & dip into their own pockets to buy glue trying to do job so ppl cud get water ....
Yup they cleaned out the injuns that did the work.bluefete wrote:I think Manning had brought the figures down to about 3,000 - 4,000 and Tantie Kams and dem went and put it back to 5,000.
But after all that, WASA i still inefficient.
I blame the GOVERNMENTS!!!
zoom rader wrote:Yup they cleaned out the injuns that did the work.bluefete wrote:I think Manning had brought the figures down to about 3,000 - 4,000 and Tantie Kams and dem went and put it back to 5,000.
But after all that, WASA i still inefficient.
I blame the GOVERNMENTS!!!
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