Having served in various capacities, in some instances for more than 15 years, more than 40 Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuco) workers attached to the Demerara Sugar Terminal find themselves stuck in low-paying jobs and saddled with what their Shop Stewards say is grossly sub-standard trade union representation that is making no effort to engage the company in the matter of improving their wages and conditions of work.
When four of the group, Elvis Lamott, Prince Davis, Otis Glasgow and Mark Cameron visited the office they told Stabroek Business that they were speaking for a larger group of colleagues. They are fed up with their prevailing conditions of work, including absurdly inadequate pay and what one member of the group described as “forced membership” of a union, which they never agreed to become members of in the first place, “only interested in collecting union dues.”
