Tag Archives: collective bargaining

Lyte is “in consort with government” – McDonald “I didn’t see us getting anything more” – Lyte Deep cracks emerged in the executive of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) on Wednesday over that bargaining agent’s signing of a multi-year salary and non-salary agreement with the Ministry of Education. While the agreement was signed on behalf of the GTU by its ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and the Ministry of Education on Wednesday inked a three-year salary increase agreement that also includes several non-salary benefits, Union President Dr Mark Lyte said. Those increases are 10% for 2024, 8% for 2025 and 9% for 2026. “The percentages are the same that the General Council accepted,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. The ...

President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Dr Mark Lyte on Saturday appealed to teachers to consider the entire package of both salary increases and allowances, saying that movements along the salary scale plus the percentage increases would benefit the educators. “I would like to say to our members: let’s stand solidly together. We must look at the whole package ...

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 ...

After ditching government’s offer to increase teachers’ salaries by 10% in 2024, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) said educators are now demanding nothing less than 29.6% for this year, General Secretary Coretta McDonald said Thursday. “We’ve met with five clusters so far and those teachers have refused that as well and they are saying that they are not prepared for ...

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 ...

The Guyana government on Wednesday asked the Court of Appeal to throw out High Court Judge, Sandil Kissoon’s entire decision that the teachers’ strike to demand collective bargaining was lawful and legitimate and so monies from their salaries must not be deducted for day off the jog. Attorney General Anil Nandlall also applied to the Guyana Court of Appeal for ...

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) on Tuesday announced that from Thursday May 9, 2024, teachers would be resuming strike to once again pressure government into negotiating increased salaries from 2019 t0 2023, a position that government has already rejected. “Because of the absence of collective bargaining, on the part of the government, the Ministry of Education to address the conditions under ...

President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU), Dr Mark Lyte on Wednesday—Labour Day—said the union had decided to resume a strike to press for collective bargaining on a proposal for 2019-2023 but no date has been set. “What we are contemplating right now is about announcing a date f0r resumption of the strike action…We are not only contemplating it; a ...

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 ...