Dear Editor,
Is this for real? Sugar workers striking and demanding compensation as some were re-assigned to the soon to be reopened estate? That sugar estate faced industrial action even before reopening. What do workers really want, the estate reopened or not? Ramping up calls for compensation, through strike action, when workers were gainfully employed within the company receiving all due benefits can be seen as an act of sabotage and is damn nonsense.
The company has a right to deploy its employees as it sees fit in the interest of its operations, once such deployment is not disadvantageous to employees. The work of the company takes precedence and priority over perceived, flimsy calls and engineered situations.
It is noted the union was not approach-ed but calls made for the hierarchy of government to respond ‘to come and solve this problem for us’. The union must swiftly condemn the strike action as the move and stance taken by workers is ludicrous, without merit and flies in the face of good faith and sense prevailing.
Sincerely,
Shamshun Mohamed
