UG lecturers hold sickout after told pay would be withheld

Work was ongoing on the roof of the George Walcott Lecture Theatre yesterday

Lecturers at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus, after being advised by the administration that they will not earn salaries and allowances if the industrial action continues, decided to hold a ‘sickout’ yesterday.

According to the advisory, which this newspaper has seen, staff members who are actively involved in the sit-in, work to rule and lunch-time protests at the institution will not be paid with effect from February 21.

The advisory revealed that the administration has agreed that staff members on strike cannot earn salaries and