Vice-Chancellor says cannot negotiate without UG council decision on salaries

Workers marching on the second day of protests by the unions representing University of Guyana workers.

While the two University of Guyana unions yesterday continued to protest for the start of negotiations on workers’ salaries and benefits, Vice Chancellor Professor Ivelaw Griffith has maintained that he cannot act without a decision by the University Council.

“We want we money now, we can’t wait ’til May,” the protestors supporting the unions chanted during a protest at the Turkeyen Campus yesterday.

The University of Guyana Workers’ Union (UGWU) and the University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) who attracted more