{"id":20308,"date":"2024-06-06T18:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=20308"},"modified":"2024-06-06T18:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:23:58","slug":"dr-bharrat-jagdeo-reassures-multi-year-agreement-for-teachers-wages-from-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/dr-bharrat-jagdeo-reassures-multi-year-agreement-for-teachers-wages-from-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo Reassures Multi-Year Agreement for Teachers&#8217; Wages from 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The General Secretary of the People\u2019s Progressive Party (PPP), Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to negotiating a multi-year agreement for teachers\u2019 wages starting in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He addressed this issue during his weekly press conference at Freedom House, responding to questions about whether the teachers&#8217; demands for wages and salary increases stem from financial constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 9, teachers in Guyana initiated a second wave of industrial action, which led to negotiations starting on May 13 and continuing until May 14. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has shown a willingness to discuss compensation increases commencing in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Guyana Teachers\u2019 Union (GTU) is pushing for retroactive pay raises covering the period from 2019 to 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GTU has set a condition of a 20 percent increase before teachers consider returning to classrooms and is open to negotiating a package for the years 2022 to 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his press conference, Dr. Jagdeo highlighted that recurrent expenditure on wages and salaries in the public sector, encompassing central government, statutory bodies, and public corporations, has surged from approximately $120 billion in 2020 to $210 billion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed the need for strategic financial planning to sustain this growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo also pointed out that over the past three years, the government has allocated a third of the proceeds from the oil and gas sector to fund various budgetary programs, particularly in the housing sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ongoing negotiations and the government&#8217;s readiness to engage in a multi-year agreement reflect a significant step towards resolving the teachers&#8217; demands and ensuring better compensation structures in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretary of the People\u2019s Progressive Party (PPP), Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to negotiating a multi-year agreement for teachers\u2019 wages starting in 2024. He addressed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20308","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\/20308","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=20308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20309,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions\/20309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}