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Mar 19, 2011 News
Under the theme “Capacity Building Towards a Proficient Trade Union movement” Guyana Trade Union Congress (GTUC) in collaboration with Critchlow Labour College (CLC) began a two-day leadership seminar at the CLC at Woolford Avenue, Friday.
Present at the event were President of GTUC, Norris Witter, President of the Guyana Local Government Officers Union (GLGOU), Andrew Garnett; Principal of CLC, Ivor English; General Secretary of the GTUC, Lincoln Lewis; and Human Resource Manager of OMAI, Norman Mc Lean.
In the opening session of the event, Former Senior Deputy Director, Office for Trade at CARICOM, Carl Greenidge, said that the GTUC and the CLC has organised the training session and his contribution was to alert the organisation of the changes that are taking place across the trade union movement in general across the globe and those that are taking place in Guyana and the Caribbean.
He said the implications of those changes nationally, in the workplace and otherwise for the union movement and the leaders are to be developed in addition
with their skills.
Greenidge explained that not only the negotiating type of skills have to be developed but skills that span the political arena, social awareness, issues with women and children, “and not for them to see their work in a very narrow union sense, especially because that approach is likely to lose them the potential of their membership.
So this is one of the lessons we have to learn from looking at what is happening elsewhere to the union movement. “For it to remain relevant it has to be aware and active in its transformational mode looking at wider issues in which the society finds itself.”
He said that the participants in the programme have to equip themselves to face the challenging issues that face them as a result of the drive to transform economies, start new initiatives which sometimes threaten labour standards and which also involves pressure on Government’s political alliances and associations.
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