-as strike continues
The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) will once again meet with the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ministry of Labour (MoL), come Monday, to discuss the ongoing teachers’ strike. The union’s president, Mark Lyte, made the announcement during a Facebook Live video yesterday.
According to Lyte, the union took the initiative to reach out to the Labour Minis-try and was invited by the Chief Labour Officer (CLO), Dhaneshwar Deonarine, to have a talk.
“We haven’t had any formal correspondence… until yesterday from the Ministry of Labour… We haven’t had any formal indication from the Ministry of Education other than some public statements to the media that they are open and willing to talk after what the union has said. Unfortunately, we’ve been unable to arrive at the consensus on the way forward. So as your President, I took the liberty yesterday to reach out to the Chief Labour Officer as a responsible union leader, or the responsible Guyanese, as a responsible educator, to reach. And the Chief Labour Officer is not within the jurisdiction… he indicated that the meeting would have been facilitated this week… The option was for us to have an in person meeting with both sides… So we’ve had a correspondence coming from the Chief Labour Officer… [and] the meeting will be convened on Monday the 10th of June,” Lyte told those who were tuned into the Live.
