{"id":12802,"date":"2023-09-15T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=12802"},"modified":"2023-09-15T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T19:30:10","slug":"guyana-teachers-union-threatens-industrial-action-over-salary-adjustments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-teachers-union-threatens-industrial-action-over-salary-adjustments\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Teachers Union Threatens Industrial Action Over Salary Adjustments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is on the brink of industrial action as it demands the government to present a parallel proposal addressing salary adjustments for teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Ministry of Education recently released a circular from the Finance Ministry to rectify the salaries of teachers paid below their minimum scale, GTU President Mark Lyte highlighted that only a handful of teachers employed in 2016 were affected. He emphasized that teachers are still awaiting salary adjustments from the government amid ongoing economic challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lyte reminded that a proposal was submitted in 2020 to address both salary and non-salary matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further disclosed that a number of educators have been absent from school between yesterday and today, and this trend is likely to continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Irfaan Ali has announced plans for consultations with teachers upon his return from the United States. These consultations aim to involve stakeholders in the development of a comprehensive set of measures to enhance the well-being of teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Saskia Warrick for NCN News.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is on the brink of industrial action as it demands the government to present a parallel proposal addressing salary adjustments for teachers. While the Ministry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12804,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12802\/revisions\/12804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}