Enmore workers ready to return to work under right conditions

Enmore workers say they are eager to return to the sugar estate under the right conditions following Government’s announcement that it is reopening two sugar estates earlier in the week.
Workers who spoke with Guyana Times on Thursday morning said that they were in disbelief when word spread through the village about the Government’s sudden U-turn on the matter.
“I couldn’t believe it, but then another worker who is field supervisor tell me and I ask he if he sure. De man said yes and I tell my mistress that I might get back wuk,” one worker, Suresh Singh related.
He said that he was also surprised when he heard that the reopening of the estate would be limited and not for an indefinite period as he expected.
“Me ain’t really understand all dem fancy term, but I hear like is temporary work. Well, I want Mr Granger to know that we want full-time, full-week and permanent wuk … they were wrong to dismiss abee…we does work hard…I can barely survive, don’t worry that chicken feed severance,” he declared.
Another worker who identified himself as “Balram Singh” explained that he hoped the Government expedited the decision so that he could be able to handle some bills that were still outstanding.
“I ready to wuk. I is a man who don’t like deh home…I trying to do some construction work, but that is not for me, I am old man…All me life I wuk at Enmore…,” he related.
Other dismissed workers called on the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) to ensure that the right working conditions and pay were agreed to with the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the Government’s Special Purposes Unit.