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Blairmont strike called off after affected workers receive money

Apr 18, 2012 News

  ….. another payment promised Friday

All sugar workers attached to the Blairmont Estate resumed operations late Monday, after two of their colleagues who were injured on the job in March, and had still not received National Insurance Scheme (NIS) benefits, received two financial payments out of the estate’s coffers.
Several categories of workers downed tools on Monday morning after two of their colleagues, chain men, Naipaul Omrow and Nazeer Hussain, were being given the royal runaround to receive NIS benefits after having their fingers crushed and severed respectively while on the job. In a bid to quell the situation and get the workers to resume duty, the Blairmont Estate released two payments to the men, $35,000 to Omrow and $26,000 to Hussain later in the day.
The workers then resumed their duties.
According to Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) Field Secretary at Blairmont, Hardyal Ramdihal, the factory turned out for the 2 pm- 10pm shift on Monday after the payment was made to the two workers. “Everything is back to normal….the matter [has been ] resolved… [there was] intervention through telephone conversations on Monday”.
He confirmed the estate paid some monies to cushion the compensation to the two men and that the “NIS process will take some time…by next week they [are] supposed to get their money through the NIS”. The GAWU official did blame the estate saying that it “is the estate fault, yes, because if the estate was paying their contributions to the NIS, the NIS would have paid the people them (their benefits)”.
Mr Omrow said last evening that Blairmont Estate promised him and his colleague “a next part of the payment on Friday”, so “we waiting and then if we don’t have anything, we gotta know what really going on, because the personnel at the Blairmont Estate told us they are looking after the NIS cheque”.

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