Striking workers of the Uitvlugt sugar estate returned to work yesterday but management and the union that represent the workers are yet to settle some of the issues that led to the strike.

On Tuesday more than half of the factory workers along with cane harvesters and workshop staff joined their union in protesting the alleged disappearance of 98 bags of sugar among other issues.

General Manager of the estate, Abdul Gafoor had denied this stating that he had records to prove otherwise.

Contacted yesterday Gafoor confirmed that there was full resumption yesterday by all the staff who went on strike on Tuesday. He did not go into details as to what steps were being taken to resolve the issues but Stabroek News was told that the two sides held discussions yesterday.

In a telephone interview with this newspaper on Tuesday, Gafoor had said that the workers told him that they were proceeding on strike over the outsourcing of the estate's canteen service, the non-settlement of a dispute with regard to the estate's weekly production target and the high water charges by the Guyana Water Inc for water supplied to the estate.

However, GAWU said in a press release that among the matters which forced the strike action are the alleged inability to account for 98 bags of sugar, the failure of the estate to fill vacancies in the water management sectors, the denial of protective clothing to mechanical tillage operators and the arbitrary outsourcing of the canteen service.