The Guyana Public Service Union [GPSU] has described government’s relief measures announced by President Irfaan Ali last Thursday as “blatant eye pass and insult” and “arbitrary, insensitive and unimpressive” in light of the astronomical increases in the cost of living.
The GPSU, in a press release issued on Thursday, condemned the measures as “arbitrary impositions which are in conflict with the President’s obligations with his oath of office to respect and uphold the Constitution and Laws of Guyana. These and any other future impositions amount to the abuse of workers’ rights to collective bargaining, which is evidence of the President’s high- handed approach, together with his continued focus on upholding bad governance as had always been his government’s hallmark, compounded with a deliberate policy of keeping workers vulnerable and at a level of poverty.”
