Sugar Industry: The Majority Of Employees On Strike This Morning, According To Organizers

Whether Serge Jauffret and Lall Devanath in the south or in the north Devanand Ramjuttun, all trade union leaders of the Joint Negotiating Panel (JNP), say they are fully satisfied that their motto was followed by the majority of employees in the sugar industry. But the figure of 70% suggested by the organizers is difficult to verify at the moment. The union platform challenges some of the amendments proposed by the minister Shakeel Mohamed both labor laws.

Anyway this is probably in the south that mobilization is the strongest. Indeed, the 90% of absence was not reached in less than three sugar estates, including Omnicane, Britannia and Riche-en-Eau. By Saint-Felix against approximately 25% of labourers have not visited their place of work.

In the north, it is no doubt that the Mon-Leisure strike is the most followed with 80% of workers who gathered on the royal road.  There is pressure on Belle Vue employees who came to work but who would have liked to join their fellow strike.

A Fuel, the main sugar in the East, some 25 to 30% of employees normally work this morning. It is obvious that this is Deep River-Beau Champ that the strike was the least followed with 5% absenteeism recorded Tuesday morning. Employees complained that they were not made aware of a strike.

With the contribution of indentured labourers, many of whom are former employees who retired under the Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) activities revolve certainly slow, but there is no stoppage of work on the properties sugar this morning.

In the early morning, the mobilization continued for the planned rally Centre Marie Reine de la Paix, Port-Louis, from 4:00 p.m. this afternoon. Workers have rented several buses in different parts of the island to monitor more closely the parliamentary debates.