Latest update February 6th, 2025 7:27 AM
GuySuCo’s senior staff seeks to meet President on salary increase
Senior staffers of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) are now seeking to meet with President Donald Ramotar after an emergency session in Berbice yesterday to discuss salary increases.
Senior staffers of GuySuCo during a meeting in West Berbice yesterday.
The staffers, from the estates in Berbice and Demerara, are upset that GuySuCo has decided that they will not be paid the 4% increase that were given to unionized workers since December.
Last week, the senior staffers, who included supervisors and engineers, were told that GuySuCo has no money to pay the increases.
The workers said that GuySuCo’s management met estate managers who then relayed the bad news to them. Senior staffers account for about 3% of GuySuCo’s 16,000-plus workers.
The senior staffers, over 400 of them, are also being told that only union members of GuySuCo are entitled to the raise.
Yesterday, a meeting was set for the senior staffers at Blairmont Community Centre, West Berbice but the workers were adamant that the facility could not be used.
The workers then shifted to the Shieldstown Community Centre where about 80 of them decided that they will attempt to meet President Ramotar.
“We have decided to meet the President because this is absolute nonsense. How could you pay some staff and not pay others?”
GuySuCo last year recorded a 23-year production low as workers continue to leave the industry in search of greener pastures.
Problems with poor yields, a 37% cut to its price, and defects at the new flagship Skeldon factory have all been contributing to the poor run.
On Friday, President Ramotar confirmed that he will be appointing current Chairman, Dr. Rajendra Singh, as the new Chief Executive Officer along with a new board, as part of the overhaul of the industry.
He also disclosed that foreign technical help will be coming.
Government has been bailing out GuySuCo in recent years with $4B approved as recent as December by the National Assembly.
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