GuySuCo was warned several times of wastage - GAWU

GuySuCo was warned several times of wastage – GAWU

Mar 24, 2010 News

A number of serious managerial shortcomings at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) were raised on several occasions, with evidence showing that the entity was guilty of consistent mismanagement and needless extravagance.
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) in a statement yesterday on the current procurement scandal facing the Corporation, said that it has to be sensitive to many issues related to what amounts to a management crisis – or challenge – in GuySuCo’s hierarchy.
“GAWU, by no means, intends to be “triumphant”, declaring an “I told you so” position. Rather, the Union can use the latest revelations to reiterate its principled positions, founded on factual evidence, that GuySuCo, so pivotal to the country’s economy, was guilty of too many areas of consistent mismanagement and needless extravagance – now, seemingly, the product of corrupt managerial practices and procedures.”
GAWU said that the losses of GuySuCo, in the billions, tend to destabilize the Corporation, the industry and the stability the workforce needs in terms of fair wages for battling the weather, working conditions and external challenges to meet production targets.
The union said that the latest allegations and counter-responses surrounding the termination of Aasrodeen Shaw, of GuySuCo’s Material Management Department, one of the dismissals in recent months, just confirm its long-standing positions and exhortations that the Corporation’s practices were responsible for too many millions in losses annually.
“And this was against the background of other dubious management decisions such as outsourcing of certain services to certain contractors; reports of visible, blatant idling of vital GuySuCo-owned machines; financial billion-dollar losses and fiascoes of Booker-Tate contractors and the Skeldon bungling, not to mention the astonishingly low three (3) per cent across-the-board wage increase by an Arbitration Tribunal towards the end of last year (2009).”
GAWU said that it is responsible enough to realize that this is no time for blowing its trumpets. “We can, however, remind our members, especially, that before that very Tribunal we had argued against GuySuCo’s mismanagement. We had quoted from two independent reports issued by an Uitvlugt Review Committee and a Commission of Enquiry at the East Demerara Estates. The malpractices discovered and revealed at these two (2) locations provided insights of disturbing managerial short-comings across the industry.”
The union said that it believed that the latest Procurement/Materials Managements charges are merely indicative of a wider GuySuCo managerial malaise.
“We resist the urge to say “too late, too late”.
Rather we invite GuySuCo to listen, to pay heed to the Union’s industrial intelligence and others much more often if this vital sector is to become sustainable once again.”

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