Dear Sir,

The Bermuda Industrial Union seems to focus on the wrong things. The union calls for the members to come out, but the white and foreign workers do not and they get the benefits.

The union needs to do something about all outsiders that are allowed to come in and get the jobs that locals can do; simple jobs that can be done by both black and white Bermudians.

Mr Editor, jobs such as cashiers, van and truck drivers, clerks, even office jobs. People are sending their children to college, yet they come back home to nothing. The One Bermuda Alliance has people who are working to bring in outsiders. Every day there is a new influx and they are given the jobs. Black and white Bermudians are hurting.

Mr Editor, it took almost 200 years to get the position you have to be given to a black man. The powers that be need to see the writing on the wall. This island is not ours any more.

There will be lots of trouble here. It seems anyone can come in to work, Bermudians are lost.

“Cocacolonisation”. This island’s indigenous culture is being eroded by a mass corporate culture.

JOAN WADE

•Editor’s note: this letter was originally submitted during the moratorium on partisan political comment