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Talks between the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), over Annual Production Incentive (API) for 2009 were declared deadlocked on Wednesday.The talks, under the Chairmanship of the Chief Labour Officer with GuySuCo, concluded on an offer of three and a half days’ pay in response to GAWU’s claim of eight days’ pay for the production of 233,Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Arsenal Jersey UK,735 tonnes of sugar last year (2009). According to a statement from GAWU, yesterday, GuySuCo decreased its offer from four days’ pay after the union finally sought to have a settlement for eight days’ pay.“The Union notes that the pessimistic picture outlined by the Corporation during the course of the arbitral proceedings last November is shattered as the Corporation has confirmed it made a profit of $480 million in 2009.This has happened in the face of Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud’s pronouncement, according to a report in the January 21,2018 Nike Air Max 90 Essential, 2010 edition of Kaieteur News, that the Corporation broke even last year,Cheap Jordan Sneakers Wholesale,” the GAWU statement explained.API, previously known as Annual Production Incentive,Paul Kariya Ducks Throwback Jersey, is a component of workers remuneration.According to GAWU,Air Max 1 Atmos, the anti-workers perspective of the state-owned Corporation has once again come to the fore. GAWU claimed that while they were in conciliatory proceedings with GuySuCo, the sugar company wrote the Union a letter dated January 14,Cheap Mens Jordan Sneakers, 2010,Cheap Air Max Tn Shoes, threatening them (the Union) and the workers in reference to the workers protest actions against the Corporation’s refusal to be compromising in securing a settlement to the API dispute.“The Guysuco letter states inter alia , ‘we hereby put your Union on notice that should it indulge in such harmful tactics, we may have no alternative but to withdraw our offer of four days’ pay as an API for year 2009.”GAWU explained that members of the union’s negotiating team from the eight sugar locations are distraught at the conclusion of the conciliation process but nevertheless committed themselves to defend the workers’ rights, interests and benefits.“They and Union leaders will sensitise the thousands of members of the union over the next few days after which a meeting of the team will take place to consider options which are available to pursue the present API struggle.” |
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