De 8 a 12 Octubre, 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 a abril 2017, followed a pattern …
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Supporting the Guyanese sugar workers unions of GAWU and NAACIE and organizational drives by the Belize Workers’ Union (BWU) were two main decisions of the recently constituted Caribbean Sugar Workers’ Alliance launched at a meeting held in Antigua (Mayo 30-31).
As it has been reported on this site, the Guyana Agricultural and General …
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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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La Guyana Agrícola y Unión General de Trabajadores (GAWU) respondió el 17 Febrero a una invitación por parte del gobierno para presentar recomendaciones con respecto a la reestructuración propuesta del gobierno y el futuro de la Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).
Leer aquí GAWU presentación al gobierno sobre GuySuCo futuro.
El documento GAWU comentarios sobre las propuestas del gobierno en disputa la sabiduría,en …
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A circular of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) fechado 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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On a 17 Diciembre 2016 article, the Hawaii Public Radio described some of the last deliveries of sugar cane to the Hawaiian Commercial & Azúcar (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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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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Un aumento salarial lineal de a bordo de 6.5 por ciento de efectividad desde 1 Abril 2016 a 31 Marzo 2017 cubrir algunos 5,000 los empleados se acordaron 4 Julio bajo las negociaciones del Consejo de negociación del azúcar. Los atrasos serán efectivos a más tardar 22 Julio. The Council parties are three unions and six major sugar employers in the Sugar …
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Una huelga que duró desde 27 junio a 6 De julio a las alturas de Harden terminó con un acuerdo de concesión de una 6.68 aumento salarial por ciento como “salario mínimo sectorial,” un 7 por ciento de aumento en otros beneficios financieros y para el trabajo de los sábados. También hay un bono anual, mientras FAWU estableció los fundamentos para un foro de los trabajadores.
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