GTUC calls on workers to reassert their relevance, importance in the development of Guyana

This year, the workers of Guyana will commemorate Labour Day 2022 on Sunday 1st May with a march and rally. The march, scheduled to begin at 7:30a.m., will move off from Independence Park and travel through the streets of Georgetown to conclude at Critchlow Labour College, Woolford Avenue, with a rally which will commence at 10:00 a.m.
Speakers at the Rally will be drawn from the Labour Movement.
This year’s theme is, “COVID- 19, Politics and the Working Class”, a theme most fitting to the environment the workers have had to labour through over the last three years, occupational safety and health challenges, inflation, low wages in an oil and gas economy, imposition of wages/salary, contempt for basic rights, exclusion from equal/ equitable participation in the nation’s economy and governance, among other civil, social, and political rights’ violations.
In an oil and gas economy, projected to have a 47% GDP growth this year, said growth will be meaningless in the absence of a national programme with the involvement of stakeholders – political and civil society – to realise a meaningful Human Development Index (HDI). Any development that views people/workers as incidental is not development in the 21st century economy, where people are placed at the centre.
GTUC calls on the workers of Guyana to mark this Labour Day, renewed in the commitment that together we must stand and together we can achieve. Solidarity. Workers of Guyana are called on to reassert their relevance and importance to having a stake and a say in the development of this country, to be treated as Guyanese, and benefit from all of Guyana’s resources.