The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) remains hopeful that the David Granger administration would make provisions to pay sugar workers an increase in wages and salaries.
On Tuesday, over 3,000 workers from estates across the country took industrial action and some protested in front of the Ministry of the Presidency for an increase in wages and salaries, which they have not been granted over the past five years as a result of what they believe is clear discrimination.
General Secretary of GAWU Seepaul Narine yesterday told Stabroek News that the union is hoping that the government would step in and offer an increase for workers. He argued that it has been five years since workers were given an increase and observed that within that time, increases were continuously given to employees within the public sector.
