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There is absolutely no way that GuySuCo under the PPP will ever de-recognize GAWU

Dec 23, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
If Guyanese needed evidence that the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is being run by a bunch of highly paid political ‘Jokers’, then the recent ‘letter’ sent to the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) threatening to de-recognize the union, provided such substantiation.
The managerial incompetence that is fermenting in the Board and executive management of GuySuCo is really overflowing and gushing into ordinary Guyanese society with alarming currents.
There is absolutely no way that GuySuCo under the PPP will ever de-recognize GAWU. Now or ever! Any such move would be political suicide for the PPP. Therefore, it is with great amusement that I am observing the industrial/political theatrics being played out in the current wages negotiations between GuySuCo and GAWU.
This is an election year and many strange machinations will present themselves, leaving the less perceptive mind in awe and bewilderment.
If by some strange means a bolt of enlightenment had struck the Guyanese sugar worker, resulting in him or her deciding that maybe a change in government might result in more effective, strategic managerial and business policies that will result in relief to the current sugar hemorrhaging being experienced by GuySuCo, it was quickly averted with GuySuCo’s ‘tactical’ de-recognition threat to GAWU.
I am very confident that the sugar workers will get their wage increase next year; even retroactively, whether or not GuySuCo can afford it. President Jagdeo will meet them at the International Convention Centre and will in his now established Big Brother fashion provide what will seem to be the only fix to this bitter sweet dilemma.
For those of you who might have thought that the management of GuySuCo was about to turn off the life support of the PPP by de-recognizing GAWU, please be reminded that GuySuCo is a quasi-governmental organization which falls directly under the mandate of the Minister of Agriculture.
The general secretary of the PPP himself has been a member of the GuySuCo Board of Directors for almost two decades. Unless there is some mortal split existing within the PPP’s central executive, there is no way that GAWU would be de-recognized.
Comrade Moses Nagamootoo eloquently presented the historical connection between GAWU and its sugar workers to the PPP in the media. He described the umbilical cord that has bound these two institutions together through their many years of struggle for better wages and working conditions.
Moses did a wonderful job of jogging the memories of those who might have started to fall prey to various forms of amnesia. And for those not familiar with the history of sugar workers struggles, they got a valuable lesson.
I sincerely hope Guyanese, more so the sugar workers can differentiate a threat from a bluff.
Richard Francois

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