The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) yesterday denied that it had received an $8 million grant in this year’s budget.
In a statement, the GTUC said that it rejected the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) “misinformation” that the GTUC had received the sum. “While FITUG finds the need to deceive in order to draw comparison to the $500, 000 it said the body has been granted, what it has kept away from the public is that under the PPP(/C) government they received millions even as the GTUC was denied. GTUC further notes that while the PPP sustained a split among the working class in furtherance of its divide and rule policies, this administration has legitimised a spilt that has no basis in universal acceptable principle,” the statement said.
In his August 10 budget presentation, Finance Minister Winston Jordan said that government had allocated $11 million in an effort to strengthen the capacity of local trade unions to better represent the rights of workers. “This amount is intended to
