Conciliation talks have started between the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) but the two sides remain split on the Annual Production Incentive (API) for sugar workers.
“We are recognising some arrogance with GuySuCo. They asked us not to talk to the press and then they go and do what they asked us not to,” GAWU’s President Komal Chand said yesterday of the state sugar company.
He noted that GuySuCo promised to engage the union on a regular basis until a resolution was found but it agreed to meet the union until next Tuesday. After “robust” disagreement by GAWU members, he said, it was decided that conciliation talks will continue on Friday morning.
Yesterday, the two sides met at GAWU’s head office for five hours of talks,
