Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) workers have seen on average, a pay decline of approximately $284,000 over four years since 2014, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) said yesterday.
Speaking about the plight of sugar workers at the union’s end-of-year press conference at its headquarters in Kingston, GAWU’s General Secretary Seepaul Narine said that from GuySuCo’s financial statements between 2014 and 2017, the average pay per worker in the sugar industry declined, on average, by $284,000.
“Undoubtedly, it must be difficult for the workers to look around and see their relatives and friends employed elsewhere benefitting from increases in pay and improved working conditions whereas they are worse off than they were four years ago,” Narine said. According to him, GuySuCo has returned to the state it was in in the early 1980s.
