Citing its “poor financial health”, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has threatened to halt reaping of the first crop if the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) goes ahead with planned strike action.
This, according to the corporation, will be the only alternative left to it if the union persists in its call to the Corporation’s workforce to strike every Tuesday over the planned closure of the Wales sugar estate.
In a statement, GuySuCo noted that “given the Corporation’s very poor financial health, if this call were to be answered by the workforce in the coming weeks, it will cause a major disruption of the current crop and