Blairmont sugar workers protest over holiday pay

Sugar workers from the Blairmont estate during the picketing exercise in front of Freedom House at Bath, West Coast Berbice yesterday morning

Workers from the Blairmont Sugar Estate yesterday downed tools protesting a one-week delay in their “holiday with pay (HWP)” allowances and later in the day an agreement was reached that the workers would receive their money on May 17.

Workers are expected to resume duty from today.