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Government and the Bermuda Industrial Union appear to be at loggerheads over whether an agreement had been reached to make public transport an essential service. On Tuesday, Labour Minister Michael Fahy, who has had regular meetings with union bosses...

Public transportation should be deemed essential because so many rely on the service, several residents agreed yesterday when polled by The Royal Gazette. But some said the move by Government to classify buses and ferries as essential — tabled as am...

Chris Furbert invoked the spirit of the 1981 General Strike and warned Government “to be careful what you ask for” as he hit back at proposed changes to labour regulations. Bermuda Industrial Union workers will meet today to discuss the controversia...

A bid to include public transport and cruise ship tug and line boats as essential services was last night defended by Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy. Mr Fahy — speaking in advance of a debate on the controversial measure in the House of Assembly ...

Premier Craig Cannonier called for unity in the aftermath of a march on Parliament by union members protesting Government’s planned change to transport laws. “This is not about, as we heard earlier today, going back to the 1970s and 1980s, when we ha...

Pembroke Hamilton Club has been given until the end of the month to pay off a $1.2 million loan from the Bermuda Industrial Union, club sources have revealed. In 2001, the BIU loaned PHC the monies to finance resurfacing of the playing field and inst...

Disputes between two Government departments and the Bermuda Industrial Union grew yesterday, with Parks Department workers downing tools and ferry service remaining suspended despite an injunction. In an e-mail to Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy f...

February 11, 2014 Dear Sir, We have just been through another industrial fiasco that has brought our country to the brink even in the best of economic times, this of course being the worst. The villain in this sad and unnecessary joust between manage...

Stalwart trade unionist Molly Burgess recognised by CableVision Bermuda By Jessie Moniz Hardy When Molly Burgess first started working in the hotel industry as a young woman, labour was still unorganised in Bermuda. There were no paid vacations, no p...

February 8, 2014 Dear Sir, Here we go again! The Bermuda Industrial Union- Progressive Labour Party axis is happily damaging our fragile economy and trying to use this as an avenue to return to political power! The PLP has been curiously mute during ...

Doris Cholmondeley Webster, a Founding member of the Bermuda Industrial Union, has died at the age of 105. Mrs Webster was born in 1909, the daughter of Henry and Mary Douglas. While she was forced to give up on education at the age of 15 when her f...

Bermuda’s two biggest unions are willing to work with Government to implement cost-saving measures put forward by the SAGE Commission. Acknowledging that the Island’s $331 million debt burden is not sustainable — and that Government needs to slash it...