Veteran trade unionist says producing bauxite trumps workers’ welfare

Lincoln Lewis

General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business that the impression which Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud appears to have gleaned from the management of the Bauxite Company Guyana Inc. (BCGI) about the relationship between itself and the company’s workers is “entirely at variance with the truth.”

Lewis said the government itself, as the minority shareholder in the company is largely responsible for “a generally unhealthy state of affairs” as far as worker /management relations