The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) has accused the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) of engaging in scaremongering over warnings that the Wales workers would lose their jobs if they miss two consecutive crops.
The 375 cane-cutters and cane transporters of the now defunct Wales estate have already missed one crop for this year and GuySuCo Industrial Relations Manager Deodat Sukhu said they have one more crop to consider.
Contacted, President of GAWU Komal Chand told Stabroek News that the union is awaiting a hearing and that it would be contemptuous to make such a move. “They are crafting new words and phrases… and are engaging in scare tactics,” he said, while adding that he had never heard of the rule to which Sukhu referred. “All the time they were saying different things and now they are coming with this. The Industrial Relations Manager should know better… They were
