Yarde flays gov’t for inaction on public service wage talks

Patrick Yarde (2nd from right) at the GPSU press briefing

By Antonio Dey

The government’s evasiveness in engaging the GPSU on the collective bargaining process is discomforting as public servants continue to migrate said the union’s President Patrick Yarde yesterday at a press briefing.

Yarde told journalists at the Guyana Public Service Union’s (GPSU’s ) Office on Regent Road, Georgetown that over 300 nurses have left the Georgetown Public Hospital, all because of the PPP/C government’s non-caring attitude to their well-being and demands for better wages and salaries.

He also flagged the former APNU+AFC government for blatantly disregarding workers’ rights to livable wages and salaries under the collective bargaining agreement