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However, a resolution to the current impasse is now dependent on the results of recommendations Minister of Labour and Human Services and Social Security, Dr Dale Bisnauth would put forward to President Bharrat Jagdeo and Cabinet, the Union’s immediate past President, Mr. Lancelot Baptiste said yesterday.
Speaking at a press briefing yesterday at GTU hall, Woolford Avenue,
Baptiste said the Union yesterday morning had a very cordial meeting with the Minister who promised to make direct contact with President Bharrat Jagdeo on the teachers issue.
He said the minister would also be taking the matter to Cabinet to be addressed and will meet with them again later this week.
The union is asking government to increase the pay of those teachers who are earning below the minimum wage, and that others are given a salary increase of 15 percent with effect from December 2001.
The union has announced that it is planning more peaceful demonstrations around the city tomorrow and at New Amsterdam on Thursday. Demonstrations will also be held at Linden, Region Ten at a later date. .
Baptiste, acknowledging that the current strike action has been affecting students preparing for CXC examinations said he has expressed the concern with the Minister that all teachers would like to be in the classroom as early as possible, but this could only be under the condition that they get what they duly deserve.
For those teachers who supported the strike by staying away from the classroom and their salaries were affected, the Union would put mechanisms in place for them to be given relief between 30 to 50 percent based on what they lost from their salaries.