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DDL, three unions sign historic multi-year wage agreement

Aug 09, 2012 News

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and the three Unions operating in the company on Friday last signed a historic five-year Collective Labour Agreement, which set out increases in salaries and other benefits for employees in the various bargaining units, for the years 2010-2014.
The signing ceremony, which took place in the boardroom of the Ministry of Labour, saw representatives of the three unions: Clerical and Commercial Workers’ Union (CCWU); Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU); and Guyana Labour Union (GLU); and of the management, affixing their signatures to the Agreement, which was countersigned by the Chief Labour Officer (Ag).
Speaking at the ceremony were Field Secretary of the CCWU, Sherwood Clarke; General Secretary of the GAWU, Seepaul Narine; General Secretary of the GLU, Carvil Duncan, and Human Resources Director of DDL, Moneeta Singh-Bird.
The parties in their comments noted that DDL and its unions have led the way in the industrial relations arena, since they were the first to sign multi-year, multi-union agreements for increases which were performance-related, instead of across-the-board.
It was also highlighted that the parties have been able to negotiate and reach settlement without the involvement of the Ministry of Labour.
The Company and its Unions first signed multi-year, multi-union agreements in 2003, and that arrangement continues to date.
Chief Labour Officer (Ag), Charles Ogle, in commending the parties, spoke of the spirit of maturity and consensus displayed in the negotiations.
He noted that the Agreement, in his estimation, was a good one, since it captured the principles of performance based pay and it also contained an escalator clause in the event the national inflation rate changed significantly.
Under the performance-based wage package, average performing employees would earn increases slightly higher than the national inflation rate, and employees who performed better than average would receive higher increases.

THURSDAY PHOTOS: DDL
From left: Carvil Duncan (General Secretary of GLU); Sherwood Clarke (Field Secretary of CCWU);  Seepaul Narine (General Secretary of GAWU);  Charles Ogle (Chief Labour Officer ag.) and Moneeta Singh-Bird (Director, Human Resources, DDL).

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