The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday again demanded that the government conform to its legal obligations under the Constitution and Laws of Guyana by engaging in collective bargaining with the union for all outstanding matters from the year 2020 to date.
The union was responding to the recent announcement by the government of a 6.5% wage increase for 2022 for public servants and other categories.
In a statement, the union said “The increases being imposed in recent years are being made on grossly inadequate salaries that spanned the ages, without proper determination of what constituted a living wage, given factors such as the astronomical currency devaluations which consistently affects the price of goods and services and consequentially the cost of living”.
It said that even as Public Servants are made to suffer the indignity of “starvation wages and high taxation”, Government has allowed investors to plunder the patrimony of Guyana.