Guysuco urges striking workers at LBI to report for duty at their respective locations

East Coast Demerara – The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. is calling on all factory workers attached to the LBI location report for duty.

The striking workers and their representatives are quoted in the media as stating that a mix-up in transportation arrangements is responsible for their current action.

Following the decision to merge the operations of both factories and consolidate production at Enmore, GuySuCo had met the workers’ unions jointly on three occasions to outline the rationale behind such a decision.

With average grinding hours of 70 per week, the LBI factory has been one of the poorest performers in the Industry for a number of years. 

During the encounters between the Unions’ and the Corporation, the union representatives were allowed to ventilate their concerns arising out of this decision. All such concerns were mutually resolved, according to GUYSUCO.

Following this, it was the Corporation’s expectation as outlined in the agreement that 88 of the 165 workers at LBI, would have reported for duty from March 22nd 2011 to the Enmore Packaging Plant, factory and field workshop.

What is even more surprising is that some of the reassigned workers who were employed at LBI but live at Enmore in some instance a short distance from the factory, refused to turn out to work at Enmore but rather boarded the lorry to LBI where they went on strike.