The travails and injustices meted out to Guyanese workers are monumental. This is according to a message by the Alliance For Change (AFC) on the occasion of Labour Day.

According to the message, Guyanese workers face depressing world market prices for commodities that threaten retrenchment, a government that is unresponsive and uncaring about working conditions, and most of all the continuing division and dissension within the Guyanese trade union movement.

According to the AFC, it recognises the contribution of all workers in Guyana adding that today, in the midst of economic and social crises, Guyanese workers continue to toil to create the wealth of this nation.  The AFC expressed the hope that trade unions in Guyana would find the courage, maturity and strength to forge a better relationship with each other, and being united and strong reap for their members, the social and economic benefits they so richly deserve.