The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is ready to negotiate for salary increases its President Mark Lyte said after he was reelected for another term on Saturday.
Lyte vowed to fight for the teachers’ best interests. “…I want to first thank the teachers for placing their confidence in me once again and putting me at the helm,” he said adding that being elected again was testimony of the work he has done in the past two years, which has won the confidence of the teachers.
“I have two more years again and I will be able to accomplish a lot more having been able to craft a new proposal to give teachers a new perspective about where we want to lead them and the plans we have for their future,” he added, stating that proposal focuses on salary increases, non-salary benefits, duty-free concessions in several categories and special incentives for teachers who perform well.
The GTU had proposed a substantial increase for teachers to the Ministry of Education. If granted, a trained non-graduate teacher, who currently earns $84,921 per month, would see a rise in salary to $581,815 a month by 2020. Similarly, an untrained graduate would be
