Workers at Enmore Sugar Estate yesterday began a planned three-day strike to sound their dissatisfaction over the terms of an agreement for salary increases for years they were underpaid by GuySuCo.
The agreement signed between GuySuCo and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), based on a Job Evaluation, stipulates that every worker will be paid a 2% increase in their salaries for every year they were underpaid over the past 20 years.
But sugar worker Bejaimal Sukram told Stabroek News yesterday that he and other workers strongly oppose the terms of the agreement, which