The Guyana Public Service Union said yesterday that there has been an undue delay in negotiations for salary increases for workers at the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) and it will meet its members this week to decide on a way forward.
At a press conference at the GPSU Regent Street Headquarters, First Vice President of the union Mortimer Livan told reporters that GPL is currently the only state-run entity whose employees have not benefited from any increase in remuneration, nor from the “interim payment made to public sector employees of five per cent and $5,000 as approved in the national budget of 2015.”
The union is also claiming that the management of the utility company is “procrastinating in dealing with a multi-year agreement first submitted in 2013.” This delay is particularly troubling to the union now as the period for the 2013/2015 agreement comes to an end in a few weeks without the