After a “necessary” meeting of the leaders of the major trade unions in Guyana, the labour movement has written to President David Granger seeking “engagement to correct anomalies” which are a “threat to Labour’s existence.”
The meeting, which was held at the office of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), included the main sugar union GAWU and key affiliates of the GTUC which have in the past not acted in concert because of decades-old divisions about representation in the labour movement. This year, there was a joint May Day rally for the first time in decades, signalling a rapprochement between the two sides.
This rapprochement continued at Thursday’s meeting, where representatives engaged each other so as
