THE Guyana Agricultural and General Workers union (GAWU) on Monday has approved for the payment of six days’ pay as Annual Production Incentive (API) to sugar workers for 2009 by the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo). The acceptance took place after the corporation made what it termed, “a final offer” of six days’ pay or to have the matter referred to Arbitration.
The union’s 50 member delegation, in their private review, noted that the rank and file had reached an exhaustion point in their struggle for an acceptable number of days pay and their need for the incentive which ought to have been paid since mid last month, decided to accept the six days’ pay.