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GTU turns down Govt’s 3-year offer of salary increases from 2024 – VP Jagdeo
“We were unprepared to do a multi-year (agreement) going forward, but we conceded that we will now offer the teachers or the GTU a multi-year agreement. We said to them that we can’t go retroactive, but we’re prepared to sign a three-year agreement from beginning 2024, and you have one to two weeks to go back and come up with what you would like to see in the multi-year proposal, and we would start the negotiations. [But] they walked out,” the Vice President noted.
Education Minister questions GTU’s unreasonable demand for teachers’ pay hike during COVID-19 period
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‘We live in a country that is culturally, religiously diverse’ – VP Jagdeo
– as Guyana’s inaugural National Ramadan Village launched
As Muslims celebrate Ramadan in Guyana and around the world, Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo emphasised that...
Talks between MoE, GTU over salary increases collapsed
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