Nearly 3,500 sugar workers have submitted a petition to President David Granger seeking a pay hike, according to a statement yesterday from their union GAWU.
The union said that the workers in the fields and factories of the Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt Estates on October 02, 2019, through GAWU, submitted a petition to President David Granger calling on him and his Government to approve a pay rise to them.
Through the petition, the statement said that the workers have pointed out that they have been working for the same rates-of-pay since 2015 though the cost-of-living has risen significantly in the ensuing period. The sugar workers said too that their earnings have declined owing to a number of factors such as lessened crop weeks, restriction of certain benefits and the suspension of other longstanding conditions of work, among other things.
