The impending start of the new semester at the Uni-versity of Guyana (UG) may be put off indefinitely as both the UG Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the UG Workers’ Union (UGWU) are threatening industrial action if their demands over wage negotiations are not met.
Both bodies met yesterday afternoon in an emergency meeting to discuss a way forward following last week’s collapse of negotiations between the unions and the UG administration after years of negotiations.
Throngs of the institution’s staff members turned out at UG’s Turkeyen Campus to voice their concerns and a course of action was decided upon after hours of consultation.
This course of action will see a last-ditch attempt to negotiate with the administration and will see the proposition of key demands. The unions’ main demand is a 60% salary increase, payable by February month-end. Further, it was decided that if the demands are not met within a week,