AFC calls for emergency Parliament session on sugar

Following last week’s threat by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) to de-recognize the main union representing sugar workers, the Alliance For Change (AFC) is calling for a special, emergency session of Parliament to discuss the fate of sugar, sugar workers and the sugar industry.

“The issues at stake and the cost to the nation are far more than just the niceties of a labour agreement or the health of a trade union – though we take note of the increasing efforts of employers to set aside collective agreements while the Ministry of Labour” idly stands by and watches, the Party said in a statement yesterday. “We are asking