A row between the main sugar union GAWU and GuySuCo over the firing of a Skeldon employee looks set to continue as the arbitrator in the matter has failed to make an award.
Stephen Daniels had been fired by GuySuCo in September after allegedly assaulting the Skeldon estate manager. This led to a debilitating strike which ended after the intervention of the Ministry of Labour. It was agreed that Daniels’s dismissal would be varied to suspension without pay pending a resolution between the two sides. Conciliation talks at the Ministry of Labour failed and arbitration was ordered, with former Chief Labour Officer Mohamed Akeel presiding.
The Guyana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) President Komal Chand accused GuySuCo of going back on the terms of resumption agreement which had been signed to end the strike over Daniels’ dismissal.
At GAWU headquarters in Kingston,
