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What a comical showdown!
Dear Editor,
I refer to the current impasse between the Guyana Power and Light Ltd (GPL) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), and also the photograph in today’s edition that shows the Chairman of GPL, Michael Brassington being flanked by the CEO of the company, Bharrat Dindial and Director, Carvil Duncan. I wish to comment neither on the reasonableness of the union’s demands nor the ability of the company to satisfy the union’s demands.
However, what I wish to comment on is the trade union fraternity between an organization called FITUG (Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana) and NAACIE, and personalities that constitutes these relationships.
The affiliates of FITUG are GAWU, CCWU, NAACIE and GLU, the latter’s General Secretary is Carvil Duncan, who is also the President of FITUG, and who is also a member of the Board of GPL, and who I presume, given his labour relations background, must be advising GPL’s Board on industrial relations.
The General Secretary of NAACIE is Mr. Kenneth Joseph, and who is also the General Secretary of FITUG. NAACIE and GPL are currently engaged in a heated labour relations imbroglio, whereby electrical power to the nation is shutdown. What a comical showdown!
Since Mr. Duncan sits on the Board of GPL and is also the President of FITUG, whose affiliate is NAACIE, and whose General Secretary is the General Secretary of FITUG, I have a few questions for these gentlemen.
1. What is Mr. Duncan’s opinion as a member of GPL Board on NAACIE’s demand, and as the President of FITUG, is your opinion the same as that of the Board Member of GPL?
2. As the General Secretary of FITUG, is Mr. Joseph’s opinion on the demand by NAACIE, the same as the General Secretary of NAACIE?
Mr. Editor, whilst we shall await the responses from these gentlemen, you will agree that these relationships are nothing short of being confounded hypocrisy.
Sham Imrit
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