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Youth unemployment figured prominently as the Bermuda Public Service Union joined organisations around the world in observing International Youth Day.
BPSU acting president Jason Hayward said: “While this year’s theme is ‘Youth Migration: Moving Deve...
DATE: Aug 13, 2013
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Budget
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Bermuda Industrial Union President Chris Furbert has defended the cost cutting agreement made between Government and its employees and criticised members who complained to the media about the deal, saying their concerns should have been taken up inte...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Budget
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The SAGE Commission intends to hold meetings with rank and file public sector workers before writing their final report.
Bermuda Industrial Union President Chris Furbert told a press conference yesterday that his union was concerned that SAGE had hel...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Budget
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Bermudians currently without a job have an opportunity to launch a new career with one of the world’s leading cruise lines this week.
Representatives from Norwegian Cruise Lines will be on the Island not to deliver holidaymakers to our shores, but to...
DATE: Jul 23, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda Industrial Union leader Chris Furbert has rejected as “utter nonsense” a statement that workers at Kentucky Fried Chicken (Bermuda) had accepted a contract they had rejected last year.
The company had sought to write a new agreement when the ...
DATE: Jul 16, 2013
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Budget
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New employment contracts accepted by staff at a fast-food restaurant are exactly the same as those they rejected on the advice of union bosses more than a year ago.
And the Bermuda Industrial Union will now have to pay legal costs after it abandoned ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda’s unions have signed an agreement of non-disclosure on current wage negotiations, at the request of Government
A Government spokesperson confirmed the agreement to this newspaper.
In a brief statement she said: “All parties have observed a p...
DATE: Jul 04, 2013
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Budget
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Bermuda Public Services Union president Kevin Grant has sought to distance himself from remarks he made in The Royal Gazette concerning possible job cuts in the Civil Service.
On Friday, Mr Grant told this newspaper that he acknowledged that the serv...
DATE: Jun 24, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The head of Bermuda’s white-collar union has acknowledged that the Civil Service may be overstaffed — and believes that it must downsize in order to become sustainable.
Bermuda Public Services Union president Kevin Grant also acknowledged that the un...
DATE: Jun 22, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Employers are being given the opportunity to better understand their rights under the Employment Act, and also learn how to create better working environments and reduce labour complaints.
Those are some of the goals of a series of outreach seminars ...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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Budget
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