– workers bonus payment unrealistic despite good efforts As at week-ending December 22, sugar production for the year stood at 103,511 tonnes sugar as follows:- Estate First Crop Second Crop Year Target Actual…
– sugar workers denied pay rise since Coalition took office As 2018 comes to an end, it is disheartening to register that workers in the sugar industry are being paid rates-of-pay that were adjusted last…
The Union pursued the legality of the Government’s decision to close estates up to the level of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). The Court, in…
– plan not seen by stakeholders or public As the year ends, the GAWU remains concerned that, so far, the stakeholders nor the public have seen a clear plan regarding the $30B borrowed…
– Government responsible for confused state-of-affairs The year also ends on a sour note as there seems to be no clarity regarding that confusion that has surrounded the sugar industry. Guyanese…
As the year closes, the GAWU is disturbed to recognise that the several commitments made to workers and to the nation for the matter following the…
This year also brought to culmination another struggle, which lasted almost two (2) years, when Justice Sandil Kissoon on December 05, ruled that cane cutters of…
– victory a silver lining on the dark clouds above workers heads The sadness of 2018 heightened when a great deal of confusion emerged regarding the severance payments to thousands of workers made jobless by the closure…
– as two (2) ex-sugar workers took their lives The year began on a most inauspicious of notes as news broke that two (2) redundant sugar workers had reached the sad point of taking…
– challenge undermines our country’s democratic credentials A major topic of discussion, at this time, concerns the motion of No Confidence which was approved by the National Assembly on December 21. While…
