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Industrial Relations

Teachers’ Union asks High Court to order collective bargaining for 2019-2023 salaries

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Friday asked the High Court to order the Guyana government to engage in collective bargaining for salaries for 2019 to 2023, three days after talks between the two sides collapsed. The union’s resort to the court through its lawyer, Darren Wade follows the position by the Ministry of Education that the budget does not ...

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Teachers’ Union expects multi-year counter-proposal

Although the Ministry of Education has publicly ruled out negotiating a 2019-2023 salary increase, the Guyana Teachers’ Union says it expects a counter-proposal when the two sides meet again on Tuesday. “When we go back to the meeting on Tuesday, our expectation is that government will bring a position to the table to say ‘look, we’re offering this percentage for ...

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Teachers’ Union sends list of financial matters to Ministry of Education for talks

President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Dr Mark Lyte on Tuesday said the union has tabled increased salaries and other financial issues for discussion with the Ministry of Education when the two sides hold their first meeting on Thursday since a court-ordered mediation agreement. He said the union dispatched a letter on Tuesday to the Ministry of Education indicating ...

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Trades Union Congress asks High Court to join Teachers Union case

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has applied to the High Court to be a party to the Guyana Teachers Union’s (GTU) case against the government because it touches on important issues that can affect other workers. In court papers released to the media on Tuesday, GTUC General Secretary Lincoln Lewis listed those issues as the legality of a strike, ...

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Govt reluctant to negotiate unrealistic wage demands with opposition-aligned trade unions- Jagdeo

The Guyana government appears reluctant to engage in collective bargaining with recognised trade unions that make unrealistic demands for wage and salary increases and are aligned to the opposition, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo indicated Thursday. “When you look at it, they make some outrageous demands: ‘Oh, we want a hundred percent increase, we want 50 percent increase. In the whole ...

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GTU says most teachers will not benefit from Ali’s announced increased salaries, allowances

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Thursday criticised the increases in salaries and allowances that were announced by President Irfaan Ali hours earlier, saying that the majority of teachers would not benefit from the payout and is a clear breach of collective bargaining. GTU General Secretary Coretta Mc Donald, deeming the announced increases for university graduates as “dismissive”, said they ...

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Meeting with teachers was not negotiation- Pres Ali; GTUC sensed no commitment to collective bargaining

President Irfaan Ali has refuted claims by the Guyana Teachers Union, Guyana Public Service Union and the opposition that his meeting with teachers last Monday amounted to negotiations. “This was not a meeting to negotiate anything. This was a meeting to meet directly with teachers to listen to them, to listen to their concerns, to hear from them how they ...

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Opposition, GPSU slam President Ali for violating collective bargaining with Teachers Union

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU have separately castigated President Irfaan Ali for holding talks directly with teachers and warned that settling for allowances now would cheat them of larger retirement pensions and gratuities. The GPSU accused President Ali of violating the Constitution, Laws of Guyana, Parliament-ratified International Labour Organization (ILO) ...

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President justifies hiring contract workers; foreign trade unionists want more oil benefits for workers

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday said government has taken a reasonable decision to hire workers on contract, in an apparent strong rebuke of an international trade unionist who advised against the employment of workers contractually. In her feature address to the opening of the 22nd delegates’ congress of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), General Secretary of the ...

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