Industrial Relations

Banks DIH Limited’s more than 1,000 unionised workers will now get a 25% salary increase plus a monthly cost of living allowance of GY$17,000, President of the General Workers’ Union (GWU), Norris Witter said Saturday. “Given the extenuating circumstances, it is a satisfactory deal,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. Mr Witter explained that the pay hike has been broken ...

Hours before President of the Guyana Teachers’ Uni0n, Dr Mark Lyte is due to give a breakdown of government’s offer to teachers after four rounds of talks, the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) on Friday said it supports the union and all teachers in rejecting government’s “insulting” proposal. Dr Lyte is scheduled to provide the breakdown on Saturday ...

The planned signing of an agreement for increased teachers’ salaries on Monday hangs in the balance because the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) would have the final say earlier in the day, an official indicated on Sunday. “Let’s see where it goes by tomorrow (Monday),” GTU President Dr Mark Lyte told Demerara Waves Online News. He said the GTU’s General Council ...

After a more than 70-day long teachers’ strike for pay talks to first consider 2019-2023, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) caved in on government’s long-held position that the multi-year agreement begin from 2024, according to statements from both sides. The GTU said in a statement that it presented a new proposal from 2024 to 2026. “This was based on consultations ...

More than 800 teachers Tuesday night mulled options to ensure their names are not taken off paysheets and were told that another round of High Court action could be taken to force the Minister of Labour to send the pay dispute to arbitration. GTU Vice President Collis Nicholson stressed the need for teachers to return to work at least on ...

Former firebrand trade unionist with the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), medical doctor Anwar Hussein has died, his employer, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) said on Monday. The NIS described Dr Hussain, its Medical Advisor, as someone who was “an invaluable part of our organization, whose dedication and commitment left a lasting impact on all who worked with him.” He ...

Two trade unionists from affiliates of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) are asking the High Court to stop the Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC) from carrying out its functions because the labour movement was not consulted about who should be the workers’ representative. Filed through their lawyer, Roysdale Forde, 2nd Vice President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Julian Cambridge ...

The Ministry of Education on Sunday declared a deadlock in salary talks with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and officially asked the Ministry of Labour to mediate between the two sides, one day before striking teachers were expected to take to the streets. “Pursuant to the provisions of the 1990 Memorandum of Agreement “the avoidance and settlement of disputes” between ...

The teachers’ strike that resumed on Thursday is seeking to force government to go to arbitration for increased salaries for 2019 to 2023, President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU), Dr Mark Lyte said Friday. “We are at a stage where the union has to find a way to force the action and force the hand of the powers-that-be to ...

Lawyers associated with the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), who won a High Court case for the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), on May 1—Labour Day—called on workers to use that decision as the plank for street protests. GTU’s lawyer Darren Wade believed that workers could use Justice Sandil Kissoon’s decision that the 29-day ...