Urging unions to demand a new living wage, trade unionist N K Gopaul on Friday said that while the government has embarked on a robust infrastructural programme, the same attention has not been paid to the plight of the ordinary worker and he also declared that some of the country’s oil wealth should bring real improvement to the poor.
Gopaul was addressing the 54th Delegates Conference of the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) at the Umana Yana.
A former PPP/C Minister of Labour, Gopaul said that if the current cost of living is examined no one would be able to deny that the workers deserve a significant improvement in their living standards and take home pay.
