It has been months since the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) was last engaged by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and President of the union Mark Lyte stated that if the ministry does not treat with the union by the end of the month, it will consider taking “drastic” action.
Lyte said the union was “appalled and saddened” that Minister of Education Dr Rupert Roopnaraine had referred to the negotiations as “discussions” in the media. “In our view the negotiations started in January after we had made our submission in December last year and discussions were held with the permanent secretary, the advisor to the minister and the human resources officer of the Ministry of Education in January and subsequent negotiations were done with the minister being present and other Ministry of Education officers in February,”