The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has up to press time remained silent on the APNU+AFC government’s unilateral imposition of a hike in public service wages and salaries but the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has condemned the action as “clear disrespect to [the] Constitution, laws and relevant ILO conventions which have long been ratified by [the] country.”
On Thursday Minister of State Joseph Harmon announced that government had made its final offer to the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU). The offer which increases the monthly minimum wage from $55,555 to $60,000 and offers a 0.5% to 8% tiered increase has been christened “what the economy can afford.”
However for GAWU at least this rationale is insincere. According to a statement from the union on Saturday, “with more prudent spending and less extravagance and unnecessary expenditure much more could have been found to give the workers.”
The union argued that while Government
