The Guyana Agricultural & General Workers Union (GAWU) says that hundreds of LBI estate workers struck on Thursday and yesterday to object to their planned transfer to the Enmore estate and the union accused GuySuCo of not wanting discussions on the matter.
At a press conference at its head office yesterday, President of GAWU, Komal Chand, told the media that the union has written a number of letters to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for dialogue but has “not even received an acknowledgment.”
The workers have taken strike actions to protest the merging of the two entities and the fact that they would not be receiving a “disturbance allowance.”
Some of the GAWU field representatives from the LBI estate journeyed to the head office yesterday, after the strike ended, to highlight their plight to the media.
