“FITUG has taken up this matter of the Pegasus…We have done the picketing. We have no apology to make to have gone and picket the premises, and to go and picket the premises where we did. We have no apology to make for that, we feel that we had to register our position and we had to register it in a way that the employer must know that we are firm and we want this kind of practice to stop.”This was the defiant utterance of President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, in response to recent statements by Chairman of the Pegasus Hotel Robert Badal.Chand said that the new trend by employers in Guyana who are moving to de-recognise their workers’ unions must be stopped. Stating that this has to be done by the union recognition board, Chand said that although that is the law “employers are going around, finding a way out”. They do this, he stressed, by getting the workers to leave the union.Warning workers that the promises of management are cosmetic,NFL Jerseys Store, he predicted that when management gets what they want,Cheap Jerseys From China, getting rid of the union,Cheap NFL Jerseys,? they will never be friends with the workers, stating that workers will always have to stand up for their rights and try to get protection.“We have to expose that trend of underhand arrangement by employers. This is the worst thing they could do, to pressure workers to leave their unions,” Chand said,Cheap Jerseys From China, adding that employers would use all the enticement and coercion possible. “This is really unacceptable in this country. We cannot allow this to go on and the trade union movement has to do something about this,” he emphasised.Pointing to the Pegasus issue, he said that in the first place when an affiliate has an issue; it has to be brought to the attention of the Federation and support is requested. Only then will FITUG get involved in the affairs of its affiliates.Chand urged the trade union movement in Guyana to treat with the issue in a serious way.? “Unions themselves should make themselves stronger,Wholesale Jerseys, they need to get their affiliates and sensitise them about the danger. The two umbrella bodies need to have a common position on this matter because this is an unusual position.”“We have to get our act together, we must stand up. I am appealing to FITUG and TUC to have a common position on this matter.? This must not be allowed to continue,” Chand stressed.Meanwhile, FITUG has urged the management of the Pegasus Hotel to review what it described as its “anti-union stance”.In a press release issued yesterday, President of FITUG, Carvil Duncan expressed that “the anti-union sentiments merely strengthen FITUG’s resolve to demonstrate solidarity with its affiliate, the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU).FITUG accused Badal of being less than honest about a Pension Scheme at the Pegasus and posited that it would be interesting if there was a petition wherein the Pegasus workers indicated their preference.FITUG also expressed hope that there would not be cause for further action in defence of the Hotel workers. (Ursulla Ramdayal)