GOGEC should know that efforts to assist workers are long overdue

Dear Editor,
I wish to express what I and many workers in the oil and gas sector feel. On the news, I saw the Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber (GOGEC) saying we should not seek to bring in other unions into Guyana to help workers in the oil and gas industry. This is a strange position, as many local companies have teamed up with foreign companies to develop businesses in the sector; so how could it be right on one hand and wrong on the other? I am confused.
I also saw the Chamber is saying that industrial relations practices are good in the sector. As an employee within one of the companies of the sector, I can say those practices are far from good. Some of us have got to have two jobs to make ends meet; some of us do not get overtime, or many other things; so how can things be good? Is it good because the owners are not paying us right and treating us right?
I believe that efforts to assist workers are long overdue; we have been suffering in silence for too long. I and many of my colleagues cannot wait to hear more.

Yours faithfully,
J Thompson