After striking for the past three days, sugar workers are expected to head back to the fields and factories today even as their union called on the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to begin wages’ talks.
“We want a resolution and to have good exchanges. It is in the interest of workers of the industry to be productive,” head of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) Komal Chand told Stabroek News today. He said that the decision to strike was not made lightly.
GAWU has called on GuySuCo to comply with the Trade Union Recognition Act and engage in collective bargaining for wages and salaries for 2015 as the second crop is winding down. Stabroek News was told that a