Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) cane planters from the East Demerara Estate (Enmore and La Bonne Intention) have been asked to do harvesting because of the lack of labourers at estates across the country, according to company spokeswoman Audreyanna Thomas.
On Monday, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) said in a statement that the cane planters complained over instructions from the Estate’s Management that they would have had to engage in cane cutting operations with immediate effect.
“The workers’ agitation was heightened vis-a-vis the Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) subsisting between the Union and the Corporation which stipulates their usual tasks,” GAWU said.
The workers, it noted, then
