Sugar Nightmare – Guysuco Workers Protest For Higher Pay In Already Struggling, Non-Profit Sugar Industry

Guysuco staff from the Albion and Blairmont estates began a strike today, threatening to walk off the job if their demands for wage and salary raises are not met.

According to the sugar union, it had resumed talks with Guysuco in the hopes of resolving the problem, but Guysuco has made no progress in this regard.

“At those meetings, the GAWU reiterated that the discussions surrounding pay rise for 2019 remained unresolved and therefore discussions ought to have begun from that point. During the engagements, GuySuCo acknowledged the GAWU’s contention. The Corporation sought the Union and the workers to exercise patience to allow it to engage in consultations with a view to finding a solution.”

The union believed it had reached an agreement with the employees to give Guysuco’s new management a chance to settle the impasse, but the sugar company refused to budge.