The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has said that it finds “absurd” that the government’s proposed differentiated wage increases is its “final offer” as allowances and de-bunching are still unaddressed.
In a press release yesterday, the GPSU explained that it “had engaged the Government of Guyana in the wages, salaries and allowances negotiation with a clear mandate that the engagement should focus on the goals of a living wage for Public Servants, the resolution of the de-bunching issue within scales and addressing the matter of the adequacy of allowances paid to public officers. Objectives…that wholly inform the Union’s negotiating approach in its engagement.”
It further noted that while the government’s negotiating team has made several increasing offers for salary increases “neither the issue of de-bunching nor allowances which are a substantive part of these negotiations have been addressed, even remotely by the government’s delegation.”