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The Bermuda Tourism Authority is set to make a presentation about visitor satisfaction to public transport workers tomorrow. According to an Authority spokesman, the BTA and the Bermuda Industrial Union are inviting public transport workers to the pr...

Many tributes have been paid to Kenyetta Young, who passed away at age 72. In his heyday, he was the Bermuda Industrial Union’s most prolific organiser and negotiator. The rank and file of workers in this land will join Kenyetta’s widow, Carolyn Youn...

A meeting held on Wednesday by unionised members of the Department of Works and Engineering had been scheduled to discuss “performance appraisals, outside employment and statements of employment”, according to division president Keith Bean. Workers a...

A heated emergency meeting of Public Works staff convened yesterday at the Bermuda Industrial Union headquarters. BIU president Chris Furbert assured The Royal Gazette that there had been no layoffs. According to workers, staff had been taken by surp...

Kenyetta Young, an uncompromising “giant” of Bermuda’s labour movement who rose to prominence as an activist for construction workers, has died at the age of 72. A charismatic, long serving organiser for the Bermuda Industrial Union, retiring in 2007...

The Bermuda Industrial Union is looking into the case of a man who claims he was wrongly dismissed from the Bermuda Hospitals Board in 2013. The former housekeeper was fired after a female supervisor reported him for using threatening words about ano...

Bus drivers, faced with a proposal to cut down on their overtime, fear that such reductions are being considered “across the whole of Government”. Chris Furbert, president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, made the remark after a meeting of unionised ...

A drastic overrun on the allocated budget for overtime in public transport has led to the severe disruption in bus routes, according to Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert. A group of unionised drivers and mechanics met for nearly two ho...

The Bermuda Industrial Union is to hold a meeting with bus operators tomorrow morning to discuss cancelled bus runs and overtime. The Allied Workers’ Division will meet at 11.30pm and the BIU said there would be no disruption to service. There have...

An updated schedule has been posted for today’s bus service cancellations. Meanwhile, Government has advised that the only run that will be cancelled tomorrow is route 10 at 7.15am from St George’s to Hamilton. A ban on overtime has been cited as the...

The Bermuda Industrial Union and the management of Stevedoring Services have agreed a collective bargaining agreement for dockworkers. Under the agreement the two sides have agreed a wage freeze for 2015 and 2016 as well as a reduction of the workfor...

An “unusually high” number of sick days that has disrupted bus service prompted the Bermuda Industrial Union to call a meeting with Transport Ministry officials on Wednesday. Sick days at the Department of Public Transportation were discussed with Sh...