The Guyana Public Service Union is upset with the Government for failing to honour the Collective Agreement signed between the union and the Government on the 10th December 2024, providing for an 8% across the board salary increase for this year.

Under the agreement, the increase for this year should have taken effect from the 1st January 2025. Now more than five months later, public servants are still looking for the increase, and their union, the GPSU, is calling on the Government to honour the agreement.

In a statement, the union also complained that despite its repeated complaints, the Government of Guyana continues to maintain several persons on contract occupying substantive positions. The union said in addition to undermining security of tenure, the questionable action stagnates upward mobility.

When the Collective Agreement was signed, the two sides said it was reached after extensive discussions and negotiations.

The agreement was a two-year agreement covering 2024 and 2025. The workers received a 10% retroactive salary increase for 2024 and an 8% salary increase for 2025.

The union had faced some criticism from some of its members over the agreement, but the union had described the agreement then as not ideal, but a move in the right direction.

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