Grève : affrontement à St George’s – 21 décembre 2011
Grenada police remove locked-out brewery workers
cbsnews.com
December 21, 2011
(AP) ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada — Riot police have been called out on the island of Grenada in a standoff between workers and a brewery.
Police cleared about 100 workers Wednesday for blocking the entrance to Grenada Breweries Ltd. Workers were supposed to return from a weeklong strike a day earlier, but the company locked them out and brought in replacements.
Union President Chester Humphrey said the company had proposed a 2.5 percent pay increase. He says workers were seeking a 5 percent raise after dropping a previous demand for 7 percent. Read more…
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Information
Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Grenada is located northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, northeast of Venezuela, and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Grenada is also known as the « Island of Spice » due to the production of nutmeg and mace crops of which Grenada is one of the world’s largest exporters. Its size is 344 square kilometres (133 sq mi), with an estimated population of 110,000. Its capital is St. George’s. The national bird of Grenada is the critically endangered Grenada Dove.
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