Enmore sugar workers lash out at GAWU

Some of the sugar workers of the Enmore Sugar Estate during the confrontation between them and Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) General Secretary Seepaul Narine at the meeting held at the Enmore Community Centre yesterday. The workers accused the union of dragging its feet on issues affecting and failing to adequately represent them.

Enmore Estate sugar workers yesterday refused to heed a call for a strike by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), which they accused of failing to adequately represent their interests.

At a meeting held with the workers at the Enmore Community Centre Ground, GAWU General Secretary Seepaul Narine was confronted by angry workers who disrupted the meeting, where he tried to whip up support for a call for an industry-wide protest over the delayed Holiday With-Pay (HWP) payout.

GAWU called the meeting after the workers embarked on a three-day strike on Tuesday over their dissatisfaction with the proposed increases to their salaries, after a job evaluation found that the