Dozens of workers stood outside the front gate of the Water and Sewerage Autho­rity’s (WASA) headquarters in St Joseph yesterday, protesting what the Public Services Association (PSA) said was a breakdown in negotiations between it and the authority’s management.PSA president Felisha Tho­­mas said workers will return to the front of the au­thority’s headquarters on Monday to seek a resolution to their negotiations impasse with management.The negotiations cover the periods 2014-2016 and 2017-2019.This comes after Thomas claimed the Human Resour­ces director and her team walked out of negoti­ations around Thursday mid­night and failed to return to work yesterday.When the Express visited the site around 1 p.m. yesterday, Thomas was addressing the workers.Having stayed at WASA’s headquarters for over 24 hours, she warned that the protest action in front of the building would intensify.Addressing workers on the compound, she said: “If they don’t deal with this situation, it only gets worse. So, hear me, we have been here for quite some time without a response.“I’m saying to you, my membership, it’s Friday. We’re leaving the compound now. We’re resting for the weekend. But you see Monday morning, bright and early (7 p.m.); we’re back out here and we must hold to our word.”She added: “They’re trying to wait for you to get tired of the fight. Will you get tired? Are you willing to fight to the end?”The workers shouted back in unison, agreeing with Thomas.She urged workers to return on Monday attired in sneakers and their green PSA jerseys.She said: “We’re back out here, stronger than we were today, with more workers, with all the workers, and they must understand why they must treat you workers as a priority.”According to Thomas, the union, along with workers, was preparing for a long war with the authority’s management.In a later interview with the Express, Thomas des­cribed the alleged walkout by the Human Resources team as a first in her experience, saying: “They have left, they have walked off of the job essentially and have not returned to their jobs.“This is a first where management has walked out and not returned, and even worse, that this situation is occurring and you have no response or no resolution on how the matter is going to be settled coming from the higher-ups.”Asked when negotiations commenced, Thomas said they began at 11.30 a.m. on Thursday.According to her, the uni­on was told by the director of Human Resources that proposals placed on the table since January 2026 had not been forwarded to the board or the ministry for the necessary instructions to bring the negotiations to a settlement.Thomas said the union had insisted that the director of Human Resources engage the board to resolve the matter and forward it to the ministry.Contacted via WhatsApp yesterday, Minister of Public Utilities Barry Padarath said he had requested a report from WASA on the status of the negotiations and the concerns that the PSA had raised.