Retirees of the Guyana Telecommunications Corporation, (GTC) now Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T),? say they are giving those responsible for owing them over 20 years of pensions, one more option before they take to the streets in protest.Over 130 persons over the age of 60 claim they are owed millions of dollars in pension payments after years of service to the telecommunications industry. After petitioning two Heads of State, several organizations and political parties for years, the Postal and General Workers Union (GPTWU),Cheap Nike Shox, representing the unpaid workers says that they are yet to achieve a resolution.While the retirees have expressed frustration and disgust with the lack of attention paid to their issue, union members are seeking to have their matter heard in Parliament before embarkingFrom right: Head of retirees group Donald Nurse, Union president Harold Shepherd,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, Lennox Skeete and former GT&T personnel Manager Clifford Blackett addressing attendees.on protest action and possible legal redressYesterday the GPTWU held a meeting with the aggrieved retirees in a last ditch effort to arrive at an amicable solution.Also present at that meeting was APNU’s Desmond Trotman. The pensioners said they made contact with the opposition in a bid to place attention on their cause. It is hoped that the matter of the unpaid/ underpaid pensioners could be taken to Parliament where the government will have to deal with the matter head on.When it was asked why the matter had not gone to court after years of delays, the union’s president Harold Shepherd said that the executive would have changed several times and it was believed that the government would have resolved the matter before taking drastic measures. He said the union never wanted to be confrontational.The former telecoms workers have laid blame on the current administration for neglecting their rights under the Pensions Act. The union said that workers were assured that if they stayed on when GTC was privatized, they would enjoy all benefits, including their full gratuity and pension.Shepherd said that several letters have been sent to government officials including former President Bharrat Jagdeo,Cheap Hockey Jerseys, Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon, Finance Minister Ashni Singh and current President Donald Ramotar but, “not even receipt of the correspondence have been acknowledged.”“To date, none of these letters have been responded to,” Shepherd said.? He mentioned however that Finance Minister Ashni Singh and Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon were invited to attend yesterday’s meeting and for the first time they received a response which stated that “they could not make the meeting.”All categories of the workers; from managers to cleaners are said to be presently earning an $18,000 per month pension.? The problem, workers said, started in 1990 when GTC was privatised.The norm was for workers under the GTC to retire at age 55 but the aggrieved pensioners say they were asked to stay on the job until the new pensionable age of 60. They were assured that their services would be treated as “continuous and unbroken and the other conditions of service will not be less favourable than what they previously enjoyed.”Based on the agreement,Jerseys Cheap NFL, the workers stayed on with the private company with the understanding that upon retirement from GT&T, they would receive their pension and gratuity from the present Government through the Ministry of Finance, in keeping with the Pension and Corporation Acts.However, the retirees say they were denied their benefits from the early 90s and when government realized the exorbitant sum of money to be paid out, asked for a compromise where workers to pat them their benefits from 2004, thus denying the retirees of some 13 years of service payment. The union rejected the offer.Shepherd, in an earlier meeting,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, had stated that, “a technician should have been receiving a monthly pension of at least $50,Cheap NFL Jerseys,000, while a former Manager should have been the recipient of way over $100,000 per month.”Moreover, at least two dozen former employees on the pension payment list have died without ever earning their just pensions. A poor turnout at yesterday’s meeting was also blamed on the aging group of employees who desperately need their retirement dues. Union executives have advised however that their members gear themselves for the next level of action, “as further steps will be taken to address the matter.”Minister of Finance Ashni Singh told Kaieteur News yesterday that he is unfamiliar with the issue of the