{"id":26509,"date":"2025-02-09T03:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26509"},"modified":"2025-02-09T03:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:12:45","slug":"appeal-court-upholds-high-court-ruling-in-favor-of-gtu-on-union-dues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/appeal-court-upholds-high-court-ruling-in-favor-of-gtu-on-union-dues\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court Upholds High Court Ruling in Favor of GTU on Union Dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>January 22, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a significant legal development, the Appeal Court has upheld the High Court&#8217;s ruling that requires the government to resume collecting union dues on behalf of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ruling, delivered on Tuesday, came after Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory refused the government&#8217;s request to stay the execution of the High Court&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government had sought to cease collecting union dues from teachers, following a decision made in February 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon had ruled that the government must continue remitting the dues to the GTU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney General Anil Nandlall, in response to the ruling, described the decision as \u201cstrange but not surprising,\u201d pointing to legal precedents from a similar case involving the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) over two decades ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nandlall noted that, in that case, both the High Court and the Court of Appeal upheld the government&#8217;s decision to stop collecting union dues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While expressing surprise at the ruling, Nandlall pointed out that Justice Gregory had previously acknowledged the potential success of an appeal, but nevertheless determined that the &#8220;justice of the case&#8221; did not justify a stay of the order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further revealed that the government intends to challenge the decision before the full court, with the possibility of escalating the matter to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ruling remains part of the government&#8217;s ongoing appeal against the High Court\u2019s decision, with a date for hearing yet to be set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 22, 2025 In a significant legal development, the Appeal Court has upheld the High Court&#8217;s ruling that requires the government to resume collecting union dues on behalf of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26509","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\/26509","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=26509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26510,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26509\/revisions\/26510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}