Rose Hall workers call for Estate Manager’s resignation

Oct 04, 2016 News

Workers during their protests action yesterday.

Sugar workers attached to the Rose Hall Estate yesterday intensified their strike action calling on the estate manager to be replaced.
Scores of workers demonstrated outside the estate situated at Rose Hall, East Canje.
The intensified action by the workers on Monday prompted senior management of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to call a meeting with workers of the Rose Hall Estate and representatives from GAWU.
During the meeting, GuySuCo agreed to give the workers their normal payment which they were demanding.
On Wednesday, more than 900 harvesters refused to work protesting management’s decision to implement a new payment system and their refusal to meet with the GAWU representatives.
Mark Vieira, one of the cane harvesters, explained that the cane they are being asked to cut is of poor quality and demanded that management pay them the allotted quota.
Kaieteur News understands that management is only willing to pay the money if the workers completetheir allotment of work for the day but according to the workers they cannot complete what they are being asked to do because of the conditions which they are asked to work under.
Meanwhile, Errol Monroe of the harvesting gang explained that the workers are used to receiving obstacle payment based on the amount of cane cut.
Management was refusing to pay based on the amount of work done in a day and is demanding that the workers will have to complete their day’s task before they receive the payment.
The sugar workers are scheduled to return normal work today.

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