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GAWU congress opens this weekend

Aug 13, 2009 News

To address challenges facing sugar industry

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) will convene its 19th delegates’ congress this weekend, and will look at the challenges facing the local sugar industry, among other issues.
The congress will be held under the theme “Advancing Social Development through Greater Workers’ Democracy.”
The opening session will be held on Saturday at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Lilendaal, Greater Georgetown, while the business sessions will be held on Monday and Tuesday at the J.C. Chandisingh Secondary School, Port Mourant, Berbice.
The Congress which is held triennially will, among other things, reflect on the major activities of the Union since the 18th Congress in August 2006; analyse the present economic and political situation, identify some challenges and tasks for the ensuing years and the election of a 50-member General Council.
Dr Freek Schiphorst, Senior Lecturer at the prestigious Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague, Holland, will deliver the feature address and declare open the Congress.
The Congress is the Union’s highest decision-making forum and it is expected to be attended by 600 delegates, drawn from the membership of the 14 bargaining units, including the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc, Fisheries, Rum and Soft Drink, Forestry, Clerical and Timber entities.
The new General Council will, at its first business session, after Congress, elect a new Executive which will assist the General Council to overlook the affairs of the Union including its negotiations with employers and the promotion of the Union’s education work following the construction of the Union’s new college behind its headquarters.

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