Sugar workers to get incentive; probe team for Blairmont grievance

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The sugar producer promised faithfully to pay an estimated GUY$500 million Annual Production Incentive by mid-March and probe unrest at Blairmont in moves aimed at getting workers to call off strikes.

Authorities have appealed to workers at Blairmont, now on a nine-day old strike, to return to work immediately and pave the way for a Commission of Inquiry by the Ministry of Labour into their grievances about the Estate Manager and Agriculture Manager there.

“In the meantime, I would like to urge full resumption of work and allow for due process and a mechanism that is fair to everyone to prevail,” Labour Minister, Dr. Nankishore Gopaul told General Secretary of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Seepaul Narine in a February 21 letter.

The committee will comprise of Dr. Dale Bisnauth, Chairman, and Mr. Mohamed Akeel a Member with Mr. Deodat Sukhu, Industrial Relations Officer of Guysuco as Secretary.

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Former Member

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The sugar producer promised faithfully to pay an estimated GUY$500 million Annual Production Incentive by mid-March and probe unrest at Blairmont in moves aimed at getting workers to call off strikes.

The Government is doing its best in satisfy the sugar workers....its seems the opponents of the state are provoking the situation

2/21/127:15 PM

PointblankSenior Member

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Originally posted by albert:
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The sugar producer promised faithfully to pay an estimated GUY$500 million Annual Production Incentive by mid-March and probe unrest at Blairmont in moves aimed at getting workers to call off strikes.

The Government is doing its best in satisfy the sugar workers....its seems the opponents of the state are provoking the situation

Bull Shyte It was only aftewr the AFC exposed the govt and stood by the sugar worker that action was taken

2/22/129:38 AM

Former Member

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Originally posted by albert:
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The sugar producer promised faithfully to pay an estimated GUY$500 million Annual Production Incentive by mid-March and probe unrest at Blairmont in moves aimed at getting workers to call off strikes.

The Government is doing its best in satisfy the sugar workers....its seems the opponents of the state are provoking the situation

fat albert why don you give back some of the money you thief from the tax payers,so the government can pay the poor sugar works and tell the rest of the ppp crime family to do the same

2/22/1212:20 PM

Former Member

The grievance of the sugar workers should never to used to score cheap political points, the opponents of the state should be ashamed of themselves....

2/22/123:08 PM

Former Member

GuySuCo, which yesterday pegged its short-term debt at $8 billion, said that it would pay the Annual Production Incentive (API) owed to Rose Hall workers on March 16, while Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy announced that a Labour Ministry team has been set up to investigate complaints by workers at the Blairmont Estate.

Rose Hall Estate workers returned to the cane fields yesterday, although they had reservations. Meanwhile, workers at Blairmont Estate, who have been on strike for almost two weeks, were urged by union representatives to return to work today and give Labour Ministry team an opportunity to investigate complaints against the Estate Manager and the Agriculture Manager.

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2/22/123:10 PM

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