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Sep 07, 2008 News
The arbitration tribunal established to deal with the wages dispute between the Guyana Sugar Corporation and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union met on Friday for the first time.
Kaieteur News was told that members of the tribunal have agreed that a preliminary dialogue should be held between GuySuCo and GAWU.
The three-man team, led by Gobind Ganga, was established on August 29 to deal with the wages dispute.
However, Ganga was yesterday replaced by Attorney at Law, Cecil Seepersaud.
Major General (ret’d) Norman McLean and Yoganand Mahadeo are the other members of the panel.
The dispute between the two bodies has been taken to arbitration, after efforts in the conciliation process proved futile. Both sides will be bound by the decision of the arbitration panel.
Minister of Labour, Manzoor Nadir told the media that after the deadlock was declared on the negotiations, he imposed compulsory arbitration.
Soured wage negotiations between the company and the GAWU resulted in workers taking a standoff last week.
GuySuCo was contractually obligated to supply its main European customer with 55,000 tonnes of sugar by Friday last. Presently, the corporation has only been able to ship 16,400 tonnes.
Failure to meet this obligation would see the corporation losing US$70 for every tonne of sugar not supplied by that date to that particular market.
The tribunal will continue Wednesday when the disputing parties will meet, along with the panel.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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