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These people really do not have an iota of shame

Jul 26, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
It’s amazing and mostly disgusting how GuySuCo and the Guyana government view the strike situations in the sugar industry from 1992 to the present time. The current strike at Albion is met with pleas for sensible, strike-free talks. These pleadings are from the management of a corporation which states that striking is unnecessary.
The managers are and have been stating that the company is losing big money with every industrial unrest. The losses are a result of the workers’ withdrawal of their labour and the inability of GuySuCo to meet their various local and international obligations.
Can these managers, directors and GAWU tell us where was this kind of thought process about strikes in the sugar industry being unnecessary when during the PNC’s time in government GAWU was encouraged by many in the current government administration to strike for anything, everything and nothing? Plus regular arson, larceny and general sabotage were a norm.
If so much money is being lost now, then what was being lost back in those days? If the workers should do a small fraction of what they were taught by administrators of their union, GuySuCo and this government would pack up and head for the hills, pronto.
In my next missive, I will reveal some of the dastardly and devious measures they took to actually bring GuySuCo to this sad state it is in. It has been touted that sugar is the backbone of this nation’s economy. Well in that case, GAWU and its instigators back in those days, broke up this country’s backbone, shinbone, skullbone and every good bone in the economy.
This government took over a cripple of their own making and should be the last to upbraid or complain about the sugar workers’ striking actions. The right history of that period in Guyana is buried away in these people’s memories for their own devious convenience. They really do not have an iota of shame.
G. Lewis

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