Underpaid sweeper/cleaners want ‘heart to heart’ with President

Pensive faces: The group of public servants providing cleaning services at state-run schools who met with the Stabroek Business recently.

Seven of the lowest paid public servants, most of them relatively young women who are heads of their households, spoke with Stabroek Business last week, seeking a way to make their case for their salaries to be lifted to at least the minimum wage level.

The women, who earn less than the equivalent of US$90 a month, spoke about the cost of living, including those costs associated with raising their children and managing their homes.

June Yansen one of the older, more experienced of the group, marks 20 years as a public servant sometime