The meeting that was slated for last Friday to thrash out which union represents Barama Company Limited (BCL) workers has been postponed to today.
After the company had announced that it would be laying off more workers, in addition to the 180 who were previously retrenched, the Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour had invited the company along with the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) to a meeting. However, the company had earlier reported to Stabroek News that the GLU had not represented the workers since 2010 and that the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) had taken over representation since the beginning of the year.
However, the Ministry is contending that the GLU was the
