University of Guyana (UG) staffers yesterday resumed demonstrations after two days of no “visible activity” with a picketing exercise in front of the Education Minister’s office on Brickdam.
Furthermore, Patsy Francis, President of the University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) said that her union, in collaboration with the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU), will go ahead and bring a class action lawsuit against the university. The demonstrations are to protest the non-payment of the staff’s NIS, leave passage, Credit Union, among other benefits and contributions. Earlier this week, Melissa Ifill, UGSSA’s Vice-President, had said that the university was given yesterday as the deadline to approach the unions with a proposal of how they would go about addressing the situation and a timeline of when this is to be done. Francis yesterday said that apart from a promise from Vice-Chancellor (VC) Jacob Opadeyi to meet with the unions on July 4th, they
