The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) is concerned about what is taking place in the sugar industry and the impact it is having on the lives of thousands of workers and their dependents.
“Until now, neither the unions nor the public have been informed of a properly studied proposal that the authorities hope to implement on the impending closure of the Wales estate,” GAWU’s General Secretary Seepaul Narine said while speaking at the 68th anniversary of the Enmore Martyrs on Thursday at the monument site at Enmore.
He highlighted that workers in the sugar industry are facing new struggles. The GAWU official said that while the present and previous governments have given financial support to the industry, there was no wage increase for sugar workers in 2015. For the first time in over 30 years, sugar workers were the only category of government workers that did benefit from an increase, he said.
