Sugar workers in the boiler department of the Enmore Estate yesterday protested outside the estate’s compound after three of their co-workers received letters informing them that they should stay home until investigations into the recent bursting of a gear box were completed.
On Thursday three employees of the boiler department were served with letters stating that they should remain at home, while being paid, until December 3, but workers put down their tools and started a strike on Friday against the decision. The move is seen as a tactic by management to fire the workers, whom they claimed sabotaged the gearbox.
The protesters stated that during the period management has asked the three employees to stay home, they could also serve them with a letter of