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Jul 24, 2008 News
A former President of the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU) has taken that organisation to court after he was dismissed last year while he was in the US seeking medical attention.
Former Chief Negotiator of CCWU, Roy Hughes, has also filed a High Court action seeking to have elections at the CCWU Biennial Congress last year declared illegal.
Hughes, whose name has been synonymous with CCWU, one of the major unions in Guyana, had applied for two weeks’ medical leave last year July for an amputation of one of his limbs.
However, in October, CCWU’s General Secretary Grantley Culbard, wrote Hughes dismissing him for his unexplained absence.
In Hughes’s absence, during the Congress, elections were held where new office bearers were voted in.
According to documents filed in the High Court by Hughes’s lawyer, the elections was not held in accordance to the rules of the union nor was CCWU General President, Fitzgerald Agard properly elected.
Hughes is requesting fresh elections. That matter is coming up again on September 9.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Labour has filed charges against the union for violation of labour regulations, for among other things, failing to give proper notice, and violating the Severance Act.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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