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Fast food franchise KFC Bermuda has been ordered to pay the legal costs of the Bermuda Industrial Union after it failed to block a dispute with staff from going to arbitration. The company will also have to pay the fees of former Economy and Trade Mi...

Kentucky Fried Chicken Bermuda and its operating subsidiary KFC Operations Limited were accused of taking “the low road” in the ongoing dispute with the Bermuda Industrial Union. BIU head Chris Furbert said unionised workers at KFCB were in some case...

Frustrations ran high last night at a meeting organised for construction workers at the Bermuda Industrial Union where several masons, carpenters and steel workers charged that they have been blacklisted in their own country. It was the first time ex...

Bermuda Industrial Union President Chris Furbert has warned that further industrial action by workers cannot be ruled out unless Government starts showing the union respect. At a press conference yesterday announcing that Marine & Ports staff were re...

Ferry workers who downed tools yesterday will return to work at 1pm today, the Bermuda Industrial Union has confirmed. The impromptu walkout by Marine and Ports workers began just before noon yesterday after union chiefs had issued Government with a ...

Commuters expecting to take a leisurely cruise home were left disappointed when they arrived at Hamilton’s ferry terminal yesterday evening. The doors to the terminal were locked and, with no ferries waiting at the quayside, it soon became apparent t...

Former Economy and Trade Minister Patrice Minors referred a highly publicised labour dispute to arbitration “because it was politically expedient to do so”, it has been suggested. Lawyers acting for KFC Bermuda made the remark yesterday during a hea...

Lawyers acting for fast food franchise KFC Bermuda have moved to block an employment dispute at the restaurant from going to arbitration. And they also claim that former Economy Minister Patrice Minors “acted unreasonably and outside the parameters o...

White collar workers at the Corporation of Hamilton have issued a 21 day strike notice, The Royal Gazette has learned. The development is an escalation of a months long dispute between the City Council and its managers who have accused Mayor Graeme O...

New PLP MP Walton Brown believes Island is entering a period of ‘strained’ labour relations By Ayo Johnson Good labour relations will be critical to Bermuda’s success, observers agree. But does the new political dispensation mean that Government-labo...