UG staffers yesterday staged the first of what is to be a week-long series of picketing action on the university’s Turkeyen campus to protest a myriad of issues including the tardiness with which their salaries are paid and the non-payment of NIS and other contributions and benefits.
“We are not asking, we are demanding that our gross salaries be paid, that all our benefits be paid, that all our contractual contributions be paid. We the staff members are fulfilling our side of the bargain, we are performing all duties that have been assigned and we will not accept… the non-payment of our benefits,” said Dr Melissa Ifill, President of the University of Guyana Senior Staff Society (UGSSA), during yesterday’s demonstration.
A small number of staffers congregated at, then moved off from the university’s administrative building, but by the time the picketing procession had traversed the various faculties and returned to the rendezvous point, the number had grown significantly as
