President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, Komal Chand, says that although the Guyana Sugar Corporation has made its 2013-2017 strategic plan available, the union is yet to receive a copy.
He charged that “the union and the workers who are important stakeholders of the industry have not been even provided with a copy of the plan much less being consulted in the composition of the plan.”
Chand told this publication on Tuesday that “all that I saw about the plan was what was published in the … two editions of the Stabroek News”. He added that it was only after this that GAWU decided to make a formal request for the strategic plan. Chand stated that all major stakeholders such as the union should have been provided with the