Tag Archives: Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC)

by GHK Lall The political opposition in Guyana found itself on the receiving end of a favor from the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC). It needs to be militant. No question about that around here. I think that this applies at the collective opposition level, or that of the individual parties. The visibility, level of energy, and degree of potency ...

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) on Tuesday demanded that the political opposition takes militant action to address a number of grave concerns such as the size of the voters list, bad management of oil revenues and poor governance by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC). “There is need for greater political militancy in this society. The role of the ...

Two trade unionists from affiliates of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) are asking the High Court to stop the Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC) from carrying out its functions because the labour movement was not consulted about who should be the workers’ representative. Filed through their lawyer, Roysdale Forde, 2nd Vice President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Julian Cambridge ...

Lawyers associated with the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), who won a High Court case for the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), on May 1—Labour Day—called on workers to use that decision as the plank for street protests. GTU’s lawyer Darren Wade believed that workers could use Justice Sandil Kissoon’s decision that the 29-day ...

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) on Tuesday welcomed the re-establishment of a Ministry of Labour and has already urged Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton to tackle several burning issues. “We look forward to a good, meaningful, and productive working relationship with the Minister. Now that we have a return of a ministry it is therefore our expectation that the ...

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has cancelled its Annual May Day March and Rally usually held on 1st May owing to COVID-19. May Day or the Workers’ Day is next Friday. The GTUC says, in keeping with the government’s guidelines and safety concerns about public gathering surrounding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the umbrella labour organisation has taken a decision ...