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All the unions in Bermuda are meeting this week to go through the details of a Government pay offer. It is a crucial week — the decision, or decisions, made will have significant ramifications for the Island Accept what Government is offering and the...

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 ...

Over 2,000 Bermudians are registered at the Department of Workforce Development (DWD), a figure that fluctuates on a regular basis, but not all of the individuals on the database are unemployed. “Some are underemployed and seeking more significant e...

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...

Shadow Minister of Home Affairs Walter Roban was not surprised to hear by the Minister’s own admission that eradicating term limits has not triggered an influx of international companies to return to Bermuda. In part three of a series on ‘Immigration...

Public transport schedules ground to a halt for almost three hours yesterday after Government staff attended a union meeting to discuss a new employment contract. There was standing room only at the Seventh-day Adventist Church on King Street, where...

Bus and ferry services will be suspended for three hours today for a BIU meeting. A Government spokesman said: “Please be advised that the Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) has called a Membership Meeting for Tuesday, July 2 at 10am at the Seventh Day A...

The staff dispute at KFC Bermuda has ended after the fast-food franchise reached an agreement with employees and the Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU). Lawyer Delroy Duncan, representing the BIU, told this newspaper last night that the parties had come ...

Workers go on a sympathy work stoppage which results in a backlog of garbage. They receive two-and-a-half days pay for the four-day stoppage. To clear the backlog, they are given overtime. Is there something wrong with that opening paragraph? How man...