A new employment organisation took to East Broadway yesterday morning to drum up support and members for their group.Members of Bermuda Back Working, flanked by handmade signs lined the busy thoroughfare during the morning rush hour traffic, encouraging those who are out of work and those who felt their jobs are in jeopardy, to join them.The group’s mission is to connect hard-working Bermudians with job opportunities.The group’s chairman, Wendell Tracy Burrows, was on-site saying that the economy has placed great financial and job stress on large group of Bermudians but “at the same time there are solutions and there is hope and we need to act on it”.Acting as a connection point between people looking for work and potential employers, Mr Burrows said the group started meeting every week since December and has the support of the Government.So far, Mr Burrows, who also owns his own maintenance business, Leave it to Beaver Maintenance, says the group has 200 members, but they are looking for more.“This organisation is for everyone — not just people who are out of work. There are people who are currently working and worried that they will be made redundant,” he said. “We’re not just going to be a talk show or a Letter to the Editor, we’re taking a step of faith.”He added that employers can contact them for “reliable, resourceful and committed” employees.“You hear things like Bermudians are not employable, they not dependable and that may be true for a small minority but one bad apple shouldn’t spoil the whole bunch,” he said.He said it is because of this stigma, guest workers are getting jobs where Bermudians could be placed.“You have a class A worker that is committed, responsible and dependable and a class C worker that is someone looking for a quick hustle,” he said. “So class C stereotype is being pinned to all Bermudians and a lot of Bermudians are good, hard working, dependable workers. It’s becoming very difficult now.”However, Mr Burrows said that his group isn’t anti-expatriate.“We don’t want to get rid of guest workers but we want to have the scale balanced,” he said.Mr Burrows, who has spent more than 30 years working in the hotel industry, says his group is more than just a collection point of jobs and job seekers.“We’re more than an employment agency, we’re trying to be a service; trying to bring the best out of people,” he said.The group meets every Thursday from 5.30pm to 7.30pm at Odd Fellows Hall, across from People’s Pharmacy. Contact info@bbworking.org or visit www.bbworking.org.