GLU to move to conciliation for pay increase for M&CC workers

Nov 28, 2009 News

By Sharmain Cornette

In another attempt to convince the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) that its staffers, particularly the rank and file, are in dire need of a boosted remuneration package, representatives of the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) met with those of the municipality.
At the council’s statutory meeting on Monday last, Acting Town Clerk, Yonette Pluck-Cort, revealed that the meeting was proposed as a final move between the two parties to see if the matter could be resolved at the level of the council.
Pluck-Cort reported that the municipality had previously met with the GLU in relation to the signing of the collective labour agreement and the request for the increase in wages and salaries for this year.
The issues of concern had in fact engaged the attention of council before, and it was agreed that the council is in no position to offer any increases for this year. It was also proposed by council that the matter of a wage increase be addressed next year, taking into consideration that increases had not been granted in 2009.
But according to Pluck-Cort, the GLU has since indicated that the employees it represents are peeved and therefore suggested that a process of conciliation commence.
It was against this background that the two parties met a few days ago – a meeting that yielded no new result, according to GLU General Secretary, Carvil Duncan.
Duncan stated that it is difficult to comprehend the cash-strapped state of the municipality even as he pointed out that it was ever since the current administration took office it has been facing some serious financial problems.
According to the General Secretary, the Georgetown municipality faces the kind of problems that have never been experienced by other local Town Councils. “This says a lot. Something is very, very wrong with the City Council and they have to address whatever the problem is and very urgently.”
He speculated that the municipality will remain cash-strapped as it is paying far too much to contractors – monies which could have been used to acquire machinery and equipment for staff to carry out the work that is currently being done by contractors.
Duncan said that the union’s next move is to engage a process of conciliation with the municipality to encourage a change of heart. He noted, though, that if conciliation does not foster the desired results, the union will then take the matter to arbitration.
Following a process of arbitration earlier this year, the municipal workers were afforded a 13 percent increase, which is currently reflected on their salaries.
The award was characteristic of seven percent for the year 2007 and six percent for last year.
The cash-strapped state of the municipality had caused councillors to suggest that the payment of leave passage to senior municipal officers be deferred so that the workers could be paid retroactive sum.

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