Unions shut out from new GuySuCo plan

Komal Chand

President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, Komal Chand, says that although the Guyana Sugar Corporation has made its 2013-2017 strategic plan available, the union is yet to receive a copy.

He charged that “the union and the workers who are important stakeholders of the industry have not been even provided with a copy of the plan much less being consulted in the composition of the plan.”

Chand told this publication on Tuesday that “all that I saw about the plan was what was published in the … two editions of the Stabroek News”. He added that  it was only after this that GAWU decided to make a formal request for the strategic plan. Chand stated that all major stakeholders such as the union should have been provided with the