Last Friday (November 30, 2018), thirty(30) participants drawn from Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt estates completed training through the UNIFOR/GAWU organized educational project. The 5-day course which began on November 26 and concluded today saw participants expressing several positive views about the training. During an evaluation session, they shared they genuinely learnt a lot and some of what they were taught they were hearing it for the first time. They also complimented the GAWU and expressed their appreciation to UNIFOR for its timely support.
The project being funded by UNIFOR’s Social Justice Fund (SJF) was launched last September and seeks to educate participants about the changing circumstances of the sugar industry locally,regionally and internationally. Apart from such sessions, participants also benefitted from sessions regarding communication skills, the Collective Labour Agreement, the role of a shop steward, and the history and structure of GAWU. They also received several presentations from external agencies such as the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), the Ministry of Social Protection, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), and the European Union (EU) delegation in Guyana.
The GAWU is strongly of the view that through education union members would be enabled to best represent and advance their interests. Our commitment to educating our members is manifested in the GAWU Labour College which provides adequate facilities to pursue the Union’s educational work and programme. The GAWU, in recent times, has also been organizing workshops and seminars in several areas as it seeks to better educate and inform workers about important matters and topics of concern to them generally, but more particularly their working-life.
