Bauxite union urges new minister’s intervention in BCGI dispute

GB&GWU Leslie Gonsalves protesting against the BCGI impasse last November (Stabroek News file photo)

The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) yesterday wrote to new Labour Minister Dr Nanda Gopaul requesting that he intervene in several outstanding grievances the union has with the BCGI, Olden-dorff Carriers Inc. and the Linden Electricity Company.

The union, in a release, said it indicated matters dating back to before 2007, including the refusal by all three companies to honour the provisions for compulsory union recognition under the Trade Union Recognition Act.

Union President Leslie Gonsalves, in a letter to the minister, pointed to Gopaul’s years of experience as a trade unionist and said he hoped he