….once revised target metThe country’s sugar target for 2011 has been revised downwards from 300,Cheap NFL Jerseys China,000 tonnes to 282,Cheap NFL Jerseys,712 tonnes,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, according to the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU).In a release yesterday, the union also disclosed that its sugar workers are set to receive no less than nine days of bonus pay under the annual production incentive (API).Negotiated every year, API allows for sugar workers to receive the bonus based on production.Both GAWU and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) yesterday reached an agreement on the formula applicable to award the API for this year, the union disclosed in a release.Workers have to meet a revised target of 282,712 tonnes of sugar to receive a nine days bonus pay.“For the production equivalent to 31,200 tonnes sugar, a day’s pay will be awarded as API to qualified workers. Thus, the Corporation’s revised target of 282,Wholesale NFL Jerseys,712 tonnes enables workers to receive not less than 9.06 days’ pay. The year’s production which stands at 146,Wholesale NFL Jerseys,712 tonnes sugar as at today (September 05, 2011) already entitles workers to 4.7 days’ pay.”The union also noted that the Corporation, unlike in recent years, “exercised wisdom” to settle the wage adjustment and API award, months prior to the conclusion of the second crop in the year.“In recent years, there was much controversy and confrontation between the parties on the resolution of these issues,Wholesale MLB Jerseys 2018, not forgetting last year…the Corporation’s threat to hijack the Recognition Agreement subsisting since 1976 between the union and the corporation.”The union said that with the recent increase and now the API, the industry’s workforce are now much energized and are diligently pursuing the reaping of canes across the industry.On Thursday, the union and the corporation are to sign the API agreement.