GPSU backs Chris Ram’s fight for pension justice: condemns Gov Disregard for court orders and the erosion of workers’ rights

The first responsibility of Government is to protect its people, defend their lives, rights, dignity and welfare. The Government is doing the opposite, and is mainly focused on economic growth, infrastructure and national development. While commendable, these can never substitute for the fundamental obligation of protecting one’s people.

Yet, while trade unions around the world are fighting for expanded protections, better wages and stronger social security, the Guyanese workforce appears to be fighting for something more basic: the protection of rights that should never be in question, including the right to life, personal safety, dignity, equal pay and equal protection under the law.

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The death of 32-year-old Gavin Kennard Douglas in State custody, under circumstances that have resulted in five police ranks being charged with murder, is a chilling indictment upon a democracy refusing to protect the most fundamental rights of its citizens, including pensioners.