Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union
- Guyana
Members
Key people
Komal Chand, president
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union (GAWU) is the largest trade union in Guyana. It was founded in 1946 as the Guiana Industrial Workers' Union. After failing in the 1950s it was reformed as the Guyana Sugar Workers' Union in 1961 but changed its name to Guyana Agricultural Workers' Union in 1962 before becoming the GAWU later that decade. Some functions, in a nutshell, would be first to represent workers' interests with a view to ensuring their rights and benefits are respected; secondly, to engage the employer in collective bargaining to improve wages, benefits and conditions of work; and thirdly, to engage government towards the improvement of the rights of workers generally.
The GAWU is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions.
References
- ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.
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- Louis Saillant (1945–1968)
- Pierre Gensous (1969–1978)
- Enrique Pastorino (1978–1980)
- Ibrahim Zakaria (1980–1990)
- Alexander Zharikov (1990–2005)
- George Mavrikos (2005–2022)
- Pambis Kyritsis (2022–present)
- Walter Citrine (1945–1946)
- Arthur Deakin (1946–1949)
- Giuseppe Di Vittorio (1949–1959)
- Agostino Novella (1959–1961)
- Renato Bitossi (1961–1969)
- Enrique Pastorino (1969–1975)
- Sándor Gáspár (1975–1989)
- Indrajit Gupta (1989–1990)
- Ibrahim Zakaria (1990–1994)
- Antonio Neto (1994–2000)
- K. L. Mahendra (2000–2005)
- Shaban Assouz (2005–2016)
- Mzwandile Makwayiba (2016–current)
- Agroalimentary, Food, Commerce, Textile and Allied
- Banks, Insurance and Financial
- Building, Wood, Building Materials and Allied
- Chemical, Energy, Metal, Oil and Allied
- Mining, Metallurgy and Metal
- Pensioners and Retired Persons
- Public Service and Allied
- Teachers
- Textile-Garment-Leather
- Tourism and Hotels
- Transport
Portals:
Organized Labour
Guyana
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