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Berbice Sugar Workers - ketchim - 07-25-2012
[size=10pt]SUGAR workers at the Albion estate, Region 6, have again taken strike action...........[/size]
Re: Berbice Sugar Workers - ketchim - 07-25-2012
[size=10pt]The workers claimed they were in the past paid $4000 per punt for carryover canes....[/size] ::lol::
Re: Berbice Sugar Workers - ketchim - 07-25-2012
[size=10pt]Sugar harvesters from gangs 14 A and B, who were joined by five other harvesting gangs from Port Mourant in solidarity,
staged a protest on July 16 by blocking the roadways [/size] :wink:
Re: Berbice Sugar Workers - ketchim - 07-25-2012
[size=10pt]It has been 10 days since the canes have been burnt, and if a decision is not made shortly, over 162 punts of canes
(approximately 962 tonnes) could be lost, as a result of the industrial unrest......[/size]
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Re: Berbice Sugar Workers - ketchim - 07-25-2012
[size=10pt]Thus far, approximately 400 harvesters have downed their tools, and vowed not to return to the fields until their demands
are met by GuySuCo.....[/size]
Re: Berbice Sugar Workers - Captain - 07-25-2012
strike strike PPPP doomed yall
make connection with you buddies in Linden pressure PPPP fuh yall right
Re: Berbice Sugar Workers - SCA - 07-25-2012
At least they are not attacking police, and burning buildings and trucks. They are not asking for freeness...they are asking for fairness.
Re: Berbice Sugar Workers - ketchim - 07-25-2012
[size=10pt]GuySuCo’s projection target for the second crop is 167,000 tonnes; and to date,
only 5,500 tonnes have been produced....[/size] :lipsrsealed:
Lazy coolies :
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Re: Berbice Sugar Workers - Captain - 07-25-2012
they asking for fairness
what the people in Linden asking for
Re: Berbice Sugar Workers - SCA - 07-25-2012
The worst thing that happened to Berbice was the closing of the Port Mourant factory.