GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—The Guyana Lecturers Union (GTU) has dropped its demand that its 2019 to 2023 proposal be negotiated first and has now agreed with the Ministry of Schooling to shelve that interval and start wage negotiations from this yr ahead.
This comes after lecturers have protested for greater than 75 days throughout two durations since February.
In an announcement on Friday, the Ministry of Schooling introduced the top of the Conciliation talks with the GTU, which the Chief Labour Officer was facilitating.
In its announcement, the Schooling Ministry stated the 2 sides have agreed that the multi-year settlement to be negotiated will handle a interval commencing from 2024 and onwards.
The Ministry stated bilateral talks will now start on the multi-year settlement.
In confirming the settlement to start talks this yr shifting ahead, GTU Normal Secretary Coretta McDonald stated the union has submitted a brand new proposal to the Schooling Ministry and has agreed to take a look at 2024 and past.
“Now we have submitted a model new proposal due to their continued reluctance to take a look at the 2019-2023 proposal submitted since 2020. Sadly, now we have needed to attain this stage of getting to take industrial motion, a protracted one, after which having to be the place we at the moment are. Nonetheless, the proposal submitted to the Ministry of Schooling nonetheless must be debated, within the sense that the 2019-2023 proposal has some points that also must be sorted out.
We stay up for it, and as now we have all the time finished, we go on the market in good religion, hoping that our companions will return to us.
The GTU hopes that on this new section, we won’t have the nation’s lecturers and youngsters having to endure one other interval of business motion. We hope that this time round, the Ministry of Schooling is severe and, by extension, the Authorities is severe about rewarding lecturers for his or her contributions through the years.”
The GTU Normal Secretary stated that with faculties closed on Friday, the hope is that the negotiations will start throughout the faculty holidays and be accomplished earlier than the brand new faculty yr begins in September.
McDonald stated she doesn’t see the settlement reached with the Ministry of Schooling as a give up. She famous {that a} landmark case favored the union and can now profit the nation’s labor pressure.
The GTU Normal Secretary stated the union continues to be assured that its lecturers will assist the union. She added that the Authorities may see one other facet of the GTU if it isn’t severe in regards to the new spherical of negotiations, that are set to start quickly.
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