Three months after the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) first submitted its request for salary increase it is still awaiting an official response from the government of Guyana.
This is according to President of the GTU Mark Lyte, who said that following the precedent set by the previous administration, the union, in December, submitted its request to the Ministry of the Presidency only to be told that they should begin negotiations at the level of the Ministry of Education.
“Under the last administration negotiations were done with the President and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon. [But]… Minister of State Joseph Harmon… said that we should start our negotiations at the Ministry of Education so on December 17 we submitted to the