GTUC to move to court over collective bargaining

Norris Witter,

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is calling on the Government of Guyana to honour the rule of law concerning workers’ right to collective bargaining and says it plans to take its case to court.

These remarks and others were made at the first meeting of the GTUC’s Central Executive for the Triennial Period 2023–2026 on Thursday, December 14, under the chairmanship of its newly-elected President Norris Witter, a GTUC release stated yesterday.

The release disclosed that representatives of the Guyana Public Service Union were also present at the meeting where discussions were held on the government’s “continual violation of the rule of law, the transgressing of the constitutionally protected right of unionised workers to collective bargaining, and the imposition of wages and salaries, irrespective of the sum, which violated the principles of collective bargaining and the international conventions which the Government of Guyana is a signatory to.”