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NAACIE and GAWU must put up or shut up
Dear Editor,
GAWU and NAACIE are crippling GuySuCo with their sabotaging behaviour. According to newspapers reports, NAACIE said, “The proposal of the company is bordering on a breach of law and will not be accepted by the union. NAACIE is in full support of its members in protest action and calls on GuySuCo to respect their rights to protect themselves from further exploitation.” This is a very dishonest statement.
If NAACIE wants to prove that it is not stringing words together to justify their unlawful actions, let them quote the section of the law and the section of the Collective Labour Agreement to prove they are right and the company is wrong.
Komal Chand himself said he does not want to go to arbitration because he fears the Government will select its own people. Imagine he doesn’t even trust his own party. Every collective labour agreement says you can go to arbitration if you cannot settle the matter with the employer, but Komal doesn’t want to respect this clause in the Agreement. He prefers to suffer the workers for his political gain.
Here comes NAACIE’s most hilarious comment: “The company is showing blatant disregard for workers who are skilled professionals and who are academically suitable and properly trained for work in this Corporation. The treatment of workers at present by this company is causing frustration; strikes; absenteeism and low production, yet workers are to be paid from production levels.”
Cane cutters are considered unskilled labour, so what is NAACIE talking about skilled professionals? Sugar workers are behaving lazy and ‘skylarking’ on the job. The absenteeism, failure to meet production targets and wild cat strikes are there to prove. Who ever heard about any application for cane cutting job, where academic qualifications are necessary?
How many CXC, GCE or SSEE are required? Sugar workers forget that you have to produce or you will perish. If they want to be paid based on production then they should have stayed on the job and reaped the harvest. They could also ask the Ministry of Labour to intervene while they are working to meet production target that will help pay the wage increase they are demanding.
NAACIE and GAWU must put up or shut up.
Sunil Gobin
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