From 8 to 12 October, the IUF Sugar & Palm Oil project held activities with the Kenya Union of Sugar Plantation Workers (KUSPW) to finalise a three-year effort on the union’s stance regarding preventing and fighting sexual harassment in Kenya’s sugar sector. This program, which run from May 2015 to April 2017, followed a pattern …
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Kenya: Sugar workers observe Workers’ Memorial Day
The IUF Global Sugar and Palm Oil Program and the Kenya Union of Sugar Plantation Workers (KUSPW) observed the Workers’ Memorial Day, April 28th, with weeklong activities that included workshops on the impact of sexual harassment on the health and safety of sugar workers in Kenya. The program also included a march through the roads …
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Guyana: GAWU on the future of Sugar and GuySuCo
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) responded on 17 February to an invitation by the government to submit recommendations regarding the government proposed restructuring and the future of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).
Read here GAWU presentation to government on GuySuCo future.
The GAWU document comments on the government proposals disputing the wisdom …
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Commentary on Guyana: Whither are thou GuySuCo?
A circular of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) dated 25 January and untitled “GAWU in the dark about sugar investors” says that, even when being a “sugar stakeholder” representing some 15,000 sugar workers had to learned, through media reports (!), that the government and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) are talking to …
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Hawaii: The End of Sugar
On a 17 December 2016 article, the Hawaii Public Radio described some of the last deliveries of sugar cane to the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar (HC&S) 1901-built Pu‘unene Mill in Maui, the very last of the Hawaii’s sugar mills in operation. It added: “Cheers break out from the hundreds of workers standing nearby.”[1] …
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Kenya: KUSPW’s actions on Sexual Harassment at the workplace.
Gender-related matters, such as sexual harassment and violence against women, are rightly taking more of the media space[1]; the challenge is for individuals to effectively identify such occurrences in their daily life. Sensitisation is a major effort to develop such understanding to enhance our response to alleged cases, share the somebody else’ plight …
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South Africa: Wage agreement reached at the Sugar Bargaining Council
An across-the-board wage increase of 6.5 percent effective from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 covering some 5,000 employees was agreed on 4 July under the Sugar Bargaining Council negotiations. Back payments will be effective not later than 22 July. The Council parties are three unions and six major sugar employers in the Sugar …
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South Africa: Strike and resolution at cane-growing Harden Heights
A strike lasting from 27 June to 6 July at Harden Heights ended with an agreement granting a 6.68 percent wage increase as a “minimum sectoral wage,” a 7 percent increase in other financial benefits and for work on Saturdays. There is also an annual bonus, while FAWU established the basics for a workers’ forum.
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