Blairmont sugar workers end strike

Sugar workers on the Blairmont Estate in Berbice have resumed work after striking in protest at GuySuCo’s non-payment of rates from a 2013 arbitration award but will continue industrial action if their monies are not paid, their union’s General Secretary Kenneth Joseph says.

GuySuCo has said that all workers have received their full payment in accordance with the agreement between GuySuCo, the union and the Norman Mc Lean Arbitration Tribunal and the corporation could not pay out more money because their demand was outside of the award.

Speaking to Stabroek News, Joseph said that the National Asso-ciation of Agricultural,