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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...

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...

Hamilton business workers were greeted by a pile up of trash along city streets when they arrived for work on Monday morning, due to an unscheduled work stoppage yesterday. A City of Hamilton spokesperson confirmed the trash was eventually collected ...

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...

Nurses’ aides could take industrial action at the hospital unless a dormant pay rise is acted upon, the Bermuda Industrial Union has announced. The word came from BIU head Chris Furbert on the same day that unionised postal staff downed tools over a ...

Polaris Holding Company Ltd, the parent company of dock services company Stevedoring Services, has been turned down in its application to seek relief from the 60/40 rule — but it intends to reapply. In a statement released through the Bermuda Stock E...

Bermuda’s shipping agents, and Government, are waiting anxiously for news on a potential longshoremen’s strike on the US East Coast. US media are reporting that 15 ports from Massachusetts to Texas, including New York and New Jersey, could be closed ...

Arbitration to settle a docks dispute will begin right away, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Patrice Minors said last night. Proposed layoffs at Stevedoring Services Ltd (SSL) had led Minister Minors to intervene, and late last week she refer...

A company at the centre of a docks dispute is to appeal an injunction served by Government to stop it laying off workers. Yesterday Government was granted an injunction preventing Stevedoring Services Ltd (SSL) and the Bermuda Industrial Union from t...

Local taxi operators have vowed to defy the mandatory GPS requirement now that the second grace period allowing taxis to continue operating without it expires on Thursday. The expiration date comes just two months ahead of the annual taxi re-licensin...