UWU workers at Portvale still off the job

General secretary of Unity Workers’ Union (UWU) Caswell Franklyn has pledged continued industrial action at Portvale sugar factory until “good sense prevails”.

He said UWU members showed up at the country’s lone sugar factory in Blowers, St James, yesterday morning, but were off the job again.

“My members turned up for duty and they were told that some of them were being placed on shift, and those [workers] were going to have to go back home. Well, we don’t have any agreement to that effect...