The Labour Ministry has launched its own investigation into the allegations made by Aroaima workers against the General Manager of Operations of the local RUSAL subsidiary and will be meeting with all the parties involved on Friday.
The Ministry’s decision was conveyed in a letter sent on Monday by the Deputy Chief Labour Officer Clive Nurse to the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers’ Union (GB&GWU). In the letter, which Stabroek News saw, Nurse said that a team from the Ministry will be visiting the Aroaima Mines on Friday at 11, “to meet with Management, staff and all parties involved in this matter”. The union was invited to attend this meeting.
Meanwhile, the GB&GWU through its Acting General Secretary Carlton Sinclair, in a letter to Nurse, said that the workers involved in the matter are
