The PPP/C continues to engage workers across the country to discuss sugar’s future, but will not initiate any protests, though it will support such moves, Leader Bharat Jagdeo has said.
“We are not organizing the sugar workers’ protest… We hope that they will… because the party will support them as we supported… other protest actions. I urge them to show their displeasure,” Jagdeo told Stabroek News yesterday.
He said while the party was very concerned about events such as the stoppage of fertilizing works in some sugar cane fields, which the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) complained about yesterday, he would not want to organize protests lest the issue became political instead of industrial.
“We have pointed this out and we have said to the workers that they need to show their displeasure. I have said that to them: the same way the parking meter in Georgetown triggered a response from people of every race and political persuasion,
