The Guyana Sugar Corporation this afternoon said that it continues to be affected by strike action by harvesters attached to the estates of Rose Hall and LBI.
Even more disappointing is that workers would have again qualified for an extra day’s pay at Rose Hall for achieving their weekly production target last week as part of an increase in production industry wide.
“The current strike action will possibly result in Rose Hall being unable to complete the harvesting of their crop for this year and if such a situation occurs, canes will have to be carried over to the 1st crop next year, which the Corporation had already stated was most undesirable under any circumstances”, GuySuCo said.
The Corporation maintains that any reasonable offer for wages and salaries increase for this year must be contingent on the industry at least achieving the revised target of 264,000 tonnes of sugar.
Workers went on strike on Monday and most of them resumed work yesterday. The unions representing the workers were pressing for a wage hike offer but thus far the corporation has been linking an increase to the attaining of the revised production target.
