With wage talks between the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) and the management of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) stalled, the union has written to the Chief Labour Officer, Dhaneshwar Deonarine requesting they move to the stage of conciliation.
NAACIE’s acting General Secretary Karen Mapp last week told Stabroek News that there has been a breakdown in communication as all of the correspondence sent to GPL’s Chief Executive Officer Bharrat Dindyal has been unanswered.
“All we are hearing is that GPL has no money to pay increases. That is not communicated to us but it is in the media reports. All correspondence sent to GPL’s [management] is not being answered,” Mapp lamented when she spoke with this newspaper.