Sugar workers picketing for wage rise, production incentive

Workers picketing at Uitvlugt Estate – December 16, 2015 (GAWU photo)

Amid a deadlock over their demands for a pay rise and the Annual Production Incentive (API) sugar workers have embarked on picketing exercises countrywide.

A release yesterday from the main sugar union GAWU said that workers are picketing the Administrative Offices and Pay Offices of GuySuCo across the industry. Picketing exercises have taken place so far at the Wales, Enmore, Albion and Blairmont Estates on December 14; at Rose Hall and Uitvlugt Estates on December 16 and at Blairmont Estate yesterday. The union said that some of the slogans carried by workers included:

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