PRESIDENT of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand, on Monday night highlighted what he described as “troubling developments” that have been noticed over the past months.

And in an interview with the Guyana Chronicle yesterday, he stated that the 53-member General Council of GAWU will be meeting on July 5 to address these.

“We will be examining all the things that we consider troubling and could have ramifications for the industry and it workers,” Chand said.
The GAWU Head drew attention to this issue at the Enmore Martyrs’ Day rally, held at the Enmore Martyrs’ monument site on Monday.
At the event, he said “GAWU and also NAACIE (National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees) have recognised some troubling developments which we intend to take up. Such developments are not in the interest of the industry.”
According to him, “the workers and the unions are indispensable to the recovery of sugar. It is important that those who seek to distort the present ‘reasonably good’ relations in the sugar industry, for whatever reasons, do not forget this.”
The last clash between GAWU and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) occurred over the Union’s numerous strikes for better pay and working conditions, which led to the Corporation threatening to de-recognise GAWU because of the toll the strike actions were having on its operations. (Vanessa Narine)