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Normal trash collection schedules will restart this morning after waste management staff agreed yesterday to end a work-to-rule. The industrial action, announced on Sunday, was called off after talks between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the Depar...

Garbage collectors have launched a work to rule and the industrial action will hit trash pick-up schedules, a Government spokesman warned today. The public works ministry spokesman said a meeting with staff in a bid to end the dispute was due to be h...

Wide-ranging union talks were held on Wednesday with David Burt, the Premier, along with several members of Cabinet. Discussions ranged from upcoming negotiations, employee training, the impact of innovative technologies, planned revisions to Bermuda...

A former head of the Bermuda Industrial Union was honoured at yesterday’s Labour Day celebrations. The BIU headquarters building on Union Square was renamed the Ottiwell A Simmons Building as a tribute to the ex-leader and MP. Chris Furbert, the pres...

Bermuda’s unions will celebrate Labour Day next Monday with speeches from labour leaders and government ministers. The event, to be held at 11.30am in Union Square, Hamilton, will include entertainment, fire truck displays, food and vendors. The Berm...

“Demoralised” police were considering their options last night after a further delay in negotiations with the Government on pay and conditions, their representative body said. Sergeant Andrew Harewood, the chairman of the Bermuda Police Association, ...

British workers contracted for Belco’s North Power Station downed tools on Saturday after a delay in their paycheques. Last night a spokesman for Belco’s parent company Ascendant Group said that the contractors’ payroll was delayed through their UK-b...

Staff walked off the job and blocked entry to the island’s biggest hardware store yesterday in a protest over cuts to their health insurance. Employees shut the gates at Gorham’s on St John’s Road, Pembroke, at 11.45am and told customers that the sto...

Bermuda Industrial Union members approved a wage increase offered by the Government yesterday. Hundreds of unionised staff voted on a new collective bargaining agreement settled by their negotiating team. Chris Furbert, the president of the BIU, said...

Buses will be off the roads for two hours today as bus drivers hold a union meeting. The bus service, already on a work-to-rule, will down tools between 10.30am and 12.30pm. The Department of Public Transportation said there would be an interruption ...