Striking UG workers march through city to push for demands

Dr Mellissa Ifill leading the chant during yesterday’s march to the city by striking university workers.

Striking University of Guyana (UG) staffers yesterday marched from the Turkeyen Campus to Georgetown as they intensified their indefinite industrial action to press demands for pay increases, even as UG Vice Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi yesterday made a please for a return to normalcy. (See story on page 18)

About 200 hundred academic and non-academic staff members congregated at the entrance of the Turkeyen Campus to participate in the march, which was organised by the University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the Univer-sity of Guyana Workers’ Union (UGWU). The response by some academic staffers and students was, however, less than desired.

The workers marched along the East Coast Demerara Railway Embankment, then moved onto Sheriff Street and into Sandy Babb Street before