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Some Parks workers down tools in dispute

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...
Feb 22, 2014
Economy

Job cuts would cause more problems, warns BPSU boss

Union chief Kevin Grant says the Budget should concentrate on building the economy — not cutting jobs. Mr Grant — president of white collar union the BPSU — added that a multimillion pound cutback programme that involved the loss of hundreds of Civil...
Feb 20, 2014
Letters to the Editor

The customer is always right

February 11, 2014 Dear Sir, I only wish that all of the blind followers of the BIU, who chose to go out on strike last week, could read Bob Stewart’s article in the weekly newspaper. It was entitled “Putting staff before customers is financial suicid...
Feb 13, 2014
Other

Island’s unions remain against privatisation of civil service

The Island’s unions “understand the challenges” facing the Government’s cash-strapped pension scheme — but remain opposed to outsourcing or privatising for downsizing Bermuda’s civil service. The remarks came from Bermuda Trade Union Congress head Al...
Feb 12, 2014
Letters to the Editor

I’m a BIU member and I’m fed up with the BIU

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...
Feb 12, 2014
Letters to the Editor

An invitation to union representation

February 9, 2014 Dear Sir, I read in Saturday’s Royal Gazette of Joanne Macphee’s dismissal from her position at the Chamber of Commerce. Chris Furbert — Bermuda Industrial Union President — was sympathetic towards her. In light of which, I would lik...
Feb 10, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Let our lights shine

February 9, 2014 Dear Sir, Be the change you wish to see in the world — Mohandas Ghandi I would like to take this opportunity to commend Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert for his response to the apology made by Joanne MacPhee, regardi...
Feb 10, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Rewrite the script for our country

February 9, 2014 Dear Sir So now we know that the era of strikes is not a distant memory but a lingering reality just like that mindset of the “us and them”. Listen to talks, read the comments and blogs and then honestly sense the political dynamics ...
Feb 10, 2014
Other

‘Someone had to stand up for rights’

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...
Feb 10, 2014
Letters to the Editor

PLP is curiously mute

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 ...
Feb 08, 2014
Budget

Union warns Govt not to ‘erode jobs’

Union bosses are warning Government not to “erode jobs, pensions and employee benefits” in the Civil Service. And Bermuda Public Services Union president Kevin Grant has also said his members need to be consulted before Government brings about any sw...
Feb 04, 2014
Other

Barbados speaker lined up for BPSU conference

The Bermuda Public Service Union (BPSU) will host its fifth triennial Delegates Conference at the Bermuda Industrial Union headquarters in March. The conference has been scheduled for March 11 and 12 with the theme of “Social Dialogue: A Catalyst for...
Jan 30, 2014
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