{"id":20943,"date":"2024-06-27T16:53:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=20943"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:53:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:53:59","slug":"linden-teachers-return-to-classrooms-after-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/linden-teachers-return-to-classrooms-after-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Linden Teachers Return to Classrooms After Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Teachers in Linden, who had been on strike for over two months, resumed classes today following an agreement between the Guyana Teachers\u2019 Union and the Ministry of Education last Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NCN cameras visited several schools in Makenzie and Wismar, where a significant turnout of teachers was observed, although student attendance was reported to be low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strike initially began on February 5, lasting five weeks as teachers pressed for higher salary increases and duty-free concessions, among other demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negotiations between the Teachers\u2019 Union and the Education Ministry resumed in March under court mediation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talks were suspended after the Ministry cited budgetary constraints preventing salary increases from 2019 to 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proposals for salary adjustments from 2024 onwards were put forward for further discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers in Linden, who had been on strike for over two months, resumed classes today following an agreement between the Guyana Teachers\u2019 Union and the Ministry of Education last Friday.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20943","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\/20943","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=20943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20944,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943\/revisions\/20944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}