Public servants salary levels a ‘historic injustice’

Conferring: GPSU President Patrick Yarde conferring with the union’s Executive Council ahead of last Tuesday’s media briefing on the anticipated pay negotiations with government.

The financial deprivation which public servants have had to endure on account of decades of having to be satisfied with wages and salaries levels that have failed to keep pace with the cost of living is a “historic injustice,” the responsibility for which has to be placed at the feet of the employer,” President of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) Patrick Yarde said on Monday.

“I believe that the issue that must now be dealt with is whether it is at all reasonable for this nation to ask public servants to wait any longer to be granted pay increases that not only remove those huge cost of living challenges but, equally importantly, better positions them to live up to the performance