Re-cleaners’ attached to the Albion Estate in Berbice yesterday held a protest after they were told that they would no longer be offered this type of work.
The workers are contending that they cannot switch to other work at this stage in their careers.
`Re-cleaners’ are charged with removing vegetation and other impediments in estate canals to facilitate drainage and irrigation as well as to allow ingress and egress of cane punts. The union representing the `re-cleaners’, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) in a statement yesterday noted, “For some weeks now the estate is not providing them [workers] with such tasks and they are told to weed.”
