The bauxite union representing the five Rusal employees recently fired after the fallout over poor meals at the company’s Aroaima work site will be applying to the Labour Ministry for conciliation, after the company failed to respond to the union’s request for a meeting.
President of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers’ Union (GB&GWU) Leslie Gonsalves said the union had written to the company requesting “a third stage”, but a response was never received. A third stage, Gonsalves explained,