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Dec 18, 2010 Letters
Dear Editor,
Kaieteur News carried a news item “Sugar workers’ union calls for government’s intervention” (16/12/2010). In this news item GAWU is calling on the government to intervene in the stalemate over wages increase.
The government should ignore them this time around. Because GAWU knows that it could strike, sabotage the industry and do whatever it wants and the government will come to its rescue.
The union has taken too many things for granted and continued with its destructive behaviour.
GuySuCo has no money to pay any wage increase. The books are in the red and GAWU knows this. Where does the union expect GuySuCo to get money to pay the workers? The Treasury is empty with all the billions missing as reported by the Auditor General.
Guyana is a heavily indebted country and GuySuCo is set up to be self financing and if GAWU, the sugar workers and the PPP run the company to the ground let them go fix the problem. Don’t trouble the taxpayers with more burdens.
Sugar estates are the only place where workers have 50 percent absenteeism and always asking for more money; the only place where workers are refusing to work and always asking for more money; the only place where workers are sabotaging production and always asking for more money. Not a cent more!
GAWU said, “Workers expect a positive response from GuySuCo. GAWU believes that GuySuCo is well aware that the sugar industry is vital to our nation’s economy and workers constitute one of the main pillars of the industry.
It is appropriate to respect that without them no plan, no matter how good, will gain traction.”
It’s good that the union knows all the answers and it should start working on them right away.
First, let them stop undermining the company so much and let the workers work. To get production you have to work. To be paid you have to work. For the company to succeed you have to work. Money doesn’t drop from the sky.
Roy Ramroop
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