| – warns against unsupportive private sectorPublic workers are being advised to be mindful of their spending this season in light of the “arbitrary five percentage wage imposition” by the government. The head of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) Patrick Yarde has noted that it would be very unwise for public servants to engage in lavish spending; enriching the private sector that has so far been silent to their cause.Yarde said that he would be disappointed in the workers if they should engage in excess spending and forget the meager five percent increase that the government has imposed on them. He warned against the unsupportive private sector as they have not expressed concerns over the actions against the public workers – a significant percentage of the sector’s supporters.Livan and other GPSU executives, members protesting the 5 percent increaseGPSU’s Senior Industrial Officer Dennis English urged union members in a press interview that they should not get carried away with the fanfare of Christmas given the struggle that is before them. He said, “We have not seen anyone from the private sector coming out in support, but they are waiting to grab the public servants with advertisements and other offers for Christmas.”“But they (workers) should not get caught up in the season; next the season ends and its back to punishment and it is even worst, because come January,Wholesale Shoes Nike, February,Wholesale Shoes China, they (workers) have a whole year ahead of them to make do with that meager and inadequate five percent increase.”“We are saying to them that it is in their best interest, we are standing on the proverbial shoulders of many,Nike Sb Shoes China, some fought for order and previously for us and died. The point is that they have passed on a legacy to us therefore we have a duty to endure that we don’t lose what we already have.”“Many persons are enjoying great benefits and I hope they don’t think it was as a result of this decent government that woke up one morning and decided that they love public servants; it was the struggle of the union,Hockey Jerseys From China, nurses and other persons shot with pellets and so on and therefore we are viewing it very closely. We have good reason to stand up because the only time that workers get something significant is when they fight up. The government only understands a crisis situation; they lack the decency to sit down and negotiate”First Vice President Mortimer Livan has questioned the whereabouts of the remaining $3B designated for public workers. He said that when the wages were passed at $35,000 for public workers,Cheap Hockey Jerseys 2019, the private sector was upset and spoke out against it, “here we have an illegality where over $4B was budgeted for wage increase; the president signed off the appropriation bill for the purposes that the money was designated for. But only some $1B was used,Zaino Kanken Outlet, they need to tell us where the rest of the money is.” |
