Factory workers on the Blairmont Sugar Estate yesterday downed their tools and protested against GuySuCo’s non-payment of rates from a 2013 arbitration award but the corporation has responded saying that the workers had received their payments in full.
General Secretary of the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE)—the union representing the sugar workers—Kenneth Joseph told Stabroek News that nearly twenty workers have instigated a strike to protest what they called unfair treatment meted out to them after years of imposed salaries.
Joseph said the workers will continue to take industrial action until GuySuCo pays them their monies. “The union is fully behind these workers and we will continue the strike until the money is paid even if it takes us whole year,” he said, while noting that it mattered not how many workers strike but how much