Could the present administration please wake up!

Jul 26, 2018 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
After reading Clifford Krauss’ description of our home, and the inevitable fallout from all and sundry, please allow me to add my piece.
Our government has decided very unwisely, in my opinion, to not have a Ministry of Labour and to ignore the calls of Trade Union organizations as well as the opposition to re-establish the prominence of Labour within our society, a prominence earned with the blood, sweat and tears of those who came before us.
The likes of the author and his followers of that insulting and abominable article describing Guyana, are setting the stage for the deep pocket investors and all of those thinking about establishing businesses and employing Guyanese workers in their quest for a share in the ‘oil pie’, to relegate my hard-working and amiable country folk to slaves and second class citizens in their own land.
With the privilege of being on both sides of the fence, of worker and management, I learned that you get the best of Guyanese workers when they sense that they are being treated fairly and with respect. Guyanese workers do not need to be reminded about who is the boss. Treat us fairly with our wages and working conditions, and respect us as intelligent adults who are just trying to give our families the best life that we can.
The perception of weakening the Labour Movement at this time is a reversal of what Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow, Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham fought for. It is setting the stage for Clifford Krauss and those who accept his ‘gospel’ to come and take advantage of our people and relegate us to an inferior class whose lives never advanced beyond the primitive stage that he describes in the supposedly reputable New York Times.
Could the present administration please wake up!
Yours respectfully,
Keith Fraser

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