GPSU – Political Intimidation of Public Sector Workers

Press Release – Even as the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) objected to the Government’s highhanded and unlawful imposition of an 8% across the board increase for Public Servants, word was received of Government’s intimidatory intervention with public servants to garner their support for that lawless act. Government is in self-denial and has therefore strung-out its Ministers of Government, together with camera wielding members of the Department of Public Information (DPI) to garner support for its insensitive act. The GPSU finds this distasteful and strenuously objects to this kind of intrusive behavior, which because of fear would realize Government’s Hitlerian intensions, in which it appears gifted.

Public Servants are asked to stay focused and not succumb to Government’s ploy, which is designed to further disenfranchise and deny them of a living wage in this harsh economic climate. Public Servants “DO NOT SUCCUMB TO POLITICAL INTIMIDATION” of any kind, be candid and frank. Article 38G of the Constitution of Guyana guarantees redress from situations like these.

Currently, GPSU is taking affirmative action to inform the International Labour Organization (ILO), Heads of Overseas Missions and affiliated Unions, at home and abroad, of this new intrusive development.