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University of Guyana workers along with lecturers will proceed on a three day strike from Monday as staff and students continue to press for their demands to be met.The University of Guyana Workers Union and its Senior Staff Association,China Jerseys Cheap, which is made up of lecturers,NFL Jerseys China Online, decided to press further strike action after the administration failed to address its most vexing concerns, namely the decision to terminate the contracts of four lecturers.The call for strike action from Monday by the two unions representing academic and non academic staff at the Turkeyen campus has led to the cancellation of the Open/Career Day that the University scheduled for March 2.According to Public Relations Officer Paulette Paul,Artemi Panarin Jersey, the strike action is expected to have a crippling effect on preparations leading up to the event.She said it is unclear when the unions and the Administration would arrive at mutually agreed terms of resumption.Protest action at the University started when the contract of political sciences lecturer Freddie Kissoon was terminated towards the end of January.Talks between the University Administration and the workers union collapsed without an agreement reached on the terms of resumption after two days of negotiations.At an emergency meeting yesterday, the unions representing academic and non-academic staff decided to continue strike action.Members of the non-academic staff were advised that since they are more vulnerable they might want to end their sit in and return to work. However,Deion Jones Falcons Jersey, they decided to stand in solidarity with the lecturing staff.There was a march around campus at the end of the meeting. The lecturers returned to work yesterday but will continue their strike action Monday.Those in solidarity with the university workers from the Diaspora have reportedly agreed to contribute to a fund to support the striking workers.The workers union and the university administration agreed to work together to ensure the University fulfilled its obligations to access a US$10 million World Bank loan and to propose the unions and academic community be a part of the oversight committees. In addition, they agreed to commence negotiations on salaries and conditions of work and to meet at a regularly scheduled bi-partite level to address the myriad problems that face the university.However, the fourth condition proposed by the Unions was that a committee be established to review the decision to terminate lecturers’ contracts in accordance with relevant University of Guyana acts, statutes and regulations and the Cabinet approved recommendation No. 36 of the 1998 Presidential Commission on the University of Guyana and present to the administration its findings which shall be binding on all sides.However,Brad Richards Red Wings Jersey, the administration came up with an entirely new “terms of resumption” proposal that failed to address any of the items agreed to previously.The Union rejected the new proposal.The Unions believe that the Administration did not negotiate in good faith.“As workers,Kyle Korver Hawks Jersey, we should all refuse to work under circumstances where we can be fired without a stated reason, fired without due process and then denied a review of such decisions,” the Union representatives stated.The Union said the review it is requesting is nothing novel as there is precedence as the Council had appointed a committee to review the decision to terminate a contract held by the late Dr. Desrey Fox several years ago. |
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