Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) President Komal Chand says government should find a way to ensure sugar workers are not denied wage increases, following GuySuCo’s decision against awarding pay hikes for last year.
Chand told Stabroek News yesterday that while the sugar corporation has been using its dire financial status as an excuse for not increasing the sugar workers’ salaries, GuySuCo is a government entity and should have ways to increase the wages. “The government is not broke and the government gave all other workers increases. Sugar workers amount to 32% of the government employees and the government is not broke so they ought to ensure that the workers get an increase
