Calling on the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) Company to engage them in talks over changes in the company, GTT workers represented by the Guyana Postal and Telecommunications Workers Union (GPTWU) staged another protest yesterday.
President of the Union Harold Shepherd said that since their last protest on June 16, the company has not come to them to discuss the changes in their working conditions. He said that what they have heard through the media is that the company was willing to engage in talks at the bargaining table. “How could they have said this publicly and not communicate this with the union, even to date” Shepherd queried. According to the union’s president the only word he received from the company was a letter proposing closure of one of GTT’s branches. This, Shepherd said, was another issue he plans to write to GTT CEO Justin Nedd about.
Nedd had said in a statement that their employees have the right to voice their
