The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) believes that sugar workers nationwide, who it claims were all unfairly punished by the previous administration, are deserving of government’s recently announced financial support programme.
In a release yesterday, GAWU applauded the announcement by Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo that some seven thousand sugar workers who were made jobless following the closure of the Wales Estate in 2016 and Enmore, Rose Hall and Skeldon Estates in 2017 will be the beneficiaries of a grant of $250,000 each. Such assistance, the union stated, is a welcome salve to the hardships faced by retrenched sugar workers as it “seeks to correct the injustice and indignation the workers and their families confronted following the callous minimization of the sugar industry.”
