By Abigail Headley
The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) continues to maintain that the ongoing strike is lawful as it pursued all avenues for wage talks with the government since 2020 but the Chief Labour Officer is contending that the grievance procedure has not been exhausted.
This newspaper saw correspondence between the Ministry of Labour (MoL) and GTU last year leading up to the strike. According to GTU General Secretary Coretta McDonald, in 2020 a proposal was submitted by the union to the government. This proposal, she explained was supposed to span from 2020 to 2023, but no response has been forthcoming on it, to date.
