THE Casual workers of the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) had seen it fit to blockade GPO’s Head Office last week along with the Ethnic Relations Commission’s (ERC) Office.

In light of this, the union should have seen it fit to offer better advice to these workers as their actions were counter-productive to employer-employee relations.

Instead, the union takes the contributions of these employees and offer less-than-nothing as representation. In this instance, the union should have told the workers that according to the rules governing employment of public workers, if you are to be employed as a contract worker you would have to ‘break’ your years of service to be employed again.

I am also quite certain that the union met with GPOC and would have been briefed on the entity’s plan for the workers that were to be laid off. As such, it is mind-boggling to figure out why these workers have protested at all.

After all the protesting, these very workers are now undergoing training to be re-employed at the same organization. Responsible leadership by the union could have averted the protests.
MARCELLE JOSEPH