End labour discrimination at GuySuCo

Oct 01, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

I read a news report in which sugar workers at Skeldon Sugar Estate, picketed the management office and called on GuySuCo to end discriminatory practices in pay compensation practices for those on the lower rungs. It is shameful that hardworking sugar workers in the fields labouring in sweltering heat under the hot sun are not receiving similar fringe benefits, as those sheltering in air-conditioned offices and travelling in comfort in cold SUVs – all paid for by the labour productivity and taxes of the labourers. But they can’t get equality?
The working class is the productive sector – they are cultivating, tending to the cane, cleaning the vine, moulding, ‘manuring,’ doing the harvesting, and loading the cane that is backbreaking work. Those in offices are enjoying the benefits of the labour of the sugar workers. Have a conscience. Give the workers fair pay for the greater work they performed than office staff!
The agricultural workers should receive greater compensation and fringe benefits than those sitting in an office. GuySuCo’s management should immediately end discriminatory practices and grant benefits similar to those they award themselves.

Yours truly,
Vishnu Bisram

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