Starting Monday, teachers around the country are being asked to ‘work to rule’ as a protest against the failure of the present government through the Ministry of Education (MoE) to pay monies owed to teachers as part of a debunching exercise.
The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) announced at a press conference yesterday that it will be calling on its members to begin industrial action from May 4. As the second five-year agreement between the MoE and the GTU reaches its expiration date, the GTU is calling foul on one of its agreed conditions.
According to the 2011-2015 agreement between the MoE and GTU “an equivalent of approximately one per cent of the