The People’s Progressive Party ( PPP) was established by Cheddie Jagan and Forbes Burnham as a working class party and has to date organised labour to advance its interest. At the time they were and remain the foremost consequential leaders of this country, if not wider afield.
Successive leaders, from Janet Jagan to now continue the present themselves as maintaining the interest of the working class but the disparity in the Jagan/Burnham working class party to that existing now is a wide chasm between the working class, and policies and practices of the PPP government, acting only in the interest that they prioritise by race, ethnicity and political support.
These contemporary leaders of the PPP know fully well that the struggle of the teachers was right, just and long overdue.
A true working class party, embracing the best interest of this vital group of workers, who performed their public service role without partisanship to all the people of Guyana, deserve to have their right upheld and recognise, and not be target of a Government using them to score political points of their power and misguided purpose.
Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) therefore call on the PPP to set aside their political venom against the working class of this country, in particular the teachers and those they feel they have absolutely no control over.
More specifically, to withdraw the appeal against Justice Sandil Kissoon’s decision in favour of Guyana’s public school teachers.
The Appeal Court last Tuesday rejected Government’s request for a stay in Justice Kissoon’s decision. Attorney General Anil Nandlall has since said Government will appeal the decision.
GTUC calls on the Irfaan Ali regime to accept in good faith, knowing it to be true that the teachers deserve what they fought for, and more.
GTUC calls on the Government of Guyana to cease its attack and effort to attack the economic wellbeing of the working class the pay they due. Respect the Collective Labour Agreement.
GTUC calls for the conscious of this self-proclaimed working class government to abandon the appeal and abandon it in a good faith maneuver as they turn away from a politics of domination, oppression and violation to a politics of inclusion and equal opportunities for all.
