Sugar workers close industry

Sugar industry in Guyana, already in the turmoil of low productivity, poor attendance and one less performance desired Skeldon, the new plant was stop across the country yesterday as workers beaten for an excursion to pay 15 per cent.
The situation is now to clear deadlock as Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) said that he just cannot meet all except if production increases.
Agriculture of Guyana and the General Workers Union (GAWU) is arguing that the explanations offered by the company do not sense.
Some workers should return functions earlier today, Union said in a statement hier.Toutes eight plants remained closed yesterday, said the Union.
It was there are only a few days she met representatives of GAWU and NAACIE where a sorry state of affairs of the sugar industry was painted. The participation of workers amounted to approximately 57 percent in the past few weeks, and unless the situation is improving dramatically, even a target revised 264000 tonnes would be under threat.

Across the country
It was all assets, including Wales, West Demerara and LBI picketing, Coast Demerara.
GuySuCo, expressing its disappointment yesterday, said that one-day strike would seriously affect global productions.There also violently workers GAWU decision to engage in an industry-wide strike yesterday.
"The Union stated that strike action aims at applying pressure on the company to develop a wages and salaries increase for 2010."GuySuCo is, however, stating that any offer of increase in wages and salaries for this year should be subject to at least meet the revised target 264000 tonnes of sugar industry.?
The company noted that week and ending on the Saturday was the only reaching ratissés tonnes of sugar and with 10 weeks remaining for second harvest, the industry will have to produce more than 10 000 tonnes to weekly to achieve objective 2010 révisé.Cela depends on good weather.

Attendance
"With this in mind, society informed GAWU that unless she is encouraged by the participation of workers and the productivity, it would not be able to make a reasonable offer for wage increases and traitements.Actuellement figures of the participation of workers and production fall far short of their targets.
GuySuCo, participation higher for the current harvest was 68 percent to Blairmont while the lowest was 43% Skeldon - with an average of 57% industry.
"The participation of workers has just registered for grinding plants per week higher average figure rectification.Le direct consequence is 130 hours at Rose Hall and Blairmont with lowest 66 hours recorded average LBI.La registered across the industry is 103 hours."
GuySuCo warned that, if the industry must achieve a minimum of 10 000 tonnes of sugar per week for the rest of the crop, plants will be grinding at least 135 hours per week.
"On average, factories throughout the industry recorded weekly periods of cane amounting to one and a quarter of a day."
"During this period, 33 000 tonnes of cane could have treated producing approximately 2,800 tons of sucre.Cela would have a significant negative impact on the company cash flow and seriously affect its ability to respond to any increase in pay."
She noted that if the situation continues, then approximately 330 000 tonnes of Cannes would not be crushed, resulting in 29 000 tonnes of sugar is not done.
"It is to ensure that trade unions in our financial statements to verify financially as proposed by the support of its position society cannot meet the demands of trade unions of verification.
GuySuCo pointed out yesterday that last Tuesday, its President, Mr. Gopaul Nanda, as well as other officials, met GAWU and NAACIE representatives to discuss the same issues mentioned and fishermen were encouraged to improve their participation.

Opportunities lost
"Given the existing dry weather, industry loses very valuable opportunity to strike récolte.La time also will have a very negative effect on the tillage and planting that will affect the production of the next year."
The company also stated that a strike yesterday action will have a "knock on effect on production" today and will result in industry losing the ability to produce approximately 1 600 tonnes of sugar which may or may not be made for later in the crop.
"It was a very difficult period for the past four years with the production of way below its potential."

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