Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir today wrote the RUSAL-owned bauxite company accusing it of gross disregard for the laws of Guyana following its refusal to attend a meeting with the union, GBGWU, and warned that compulsory arbitration could be invoked.
Nadir’s letter to Ruslan Volokhov, General Manager of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) followed the company’s refusal to attend a meeting with the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union on Wednesday. The two sides have been loggerheads for more than a year after BCGI fired 57 workers.
The no-show by the company was condemned by the union and in a press release it disclosed that BCGI had written the Ministry stating that the Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) between itself and the union had come to an end and