GTU President Mark Lyte today told Stabroek News that he had been suspended by the union’s General Council over the controversial deal struck between teachers and the government in August this year.
The second Vice President, Julian Cambridge has also been suspended.
Techers had struck this year in two separate sections for around 75 days and had been expecting a much better deal than the one that Lyte signed in the end with the Ministry of Education.
On the signing of the deal acrimony erupted in the union.
The GTU’s strike has been seen as instrumental in forcing the government this year to conclude several collrctive bargaining agreements.