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An appeal to the State and trade unions

Jun 02, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,

Sir, I’m appealing to all Guyanese, especially the President, the Minister of Labour and our trade unions, please don’t let foreign entrepreneurs abuse our citizens or our country. Such firms include BOSAI Mining, RUSAL, Arora Mining (Guyana Gold Fields) and Troy Resources. BOSAI Mining. They have their workers labouring in a lot of unfavourable conditions and their salaries aren’t so good.
RUSAL: It fired several employees because they were outspoken against the poor conditions they were facing and the previous administration did nothing about it. I presume, the lack of response or lack of concern was because those employees are bauxite workers and not sugar workers. Sir, things to note: the Chinese and the Russians are two sets of people who have no regards for the industrial laws and labour in this country. Arora Mining: This Company got rid of employees like swatting flies off of a lunch table. How can they ill-treat people like that, without any consideration?
Troy Resources: The majority of employees are on a contract basis. Why? Are they running from a long term relationship with their employees, so that they don’t want to provide long term benefit to their subjects? To our trade unionist, please represent your workers quite diligently and don’t sell them out for 40 pieces of silver. Remember these workers elect you to represent them. They placed their confidence in you and please don’t betray it. Throughout the years in the history of trade unions in the mining industry, on many of occasions the unions and Labour Ministry sold out their employees that they supposed to represent. So I’m begging, PLEASE DON’T go down that road again.
Derick Bacchus

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