UG unions restate threat of action over workers’ benefits

Jacob Opadeyi

After meeting again with University of Guyana Vice-Chancellor (VC) Jacob Opadeyi, the UGWU and UGSSA said yesterday that they will take both legal and industrial action if a clear plan to fulfill all obligations to workers is not outlined to them.

The University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) said in a joint statement that Opadeyi, who was accompanied by several of the university’s senior administrators, still could not give an assurance that salaries would be paid on time beyond the month of July, and could not say whether employees’ gross salaries would be paid.

Part-time UG staffers have not received payment since the