Chanting “No Kentucky today” and “Eat Mr Chicken”, hundreds of unionised workers marched on KFC in a protest staged by the Bermuda Industrial Union.Prevented from entering the Queen Street restaurant by a line of police officers, the throng chanted ‘the workers, united, will never be defeated’, as they circled Hamilton twice during yesterday’s march.In a dispute that is destined to be decided in the courts, BIU president Chris Furbert said it had been the workers’ decision to march on KFC following an early morning meeting that brought Bermuda’s public transportation system to a grinding halt, leaving office workers and tourists alike stranded at both ends of the Island.Bus operators said they did as much as they could to accommodate passengers, working from 6.15am until 8am, ahead of the meeting’s planned 8am start. “We couldn’t leave parents and students stranded,” said one drive r. And by 2pm the public transportation service was back on schedule.While apologising to the Island’s commuters, Mr Furbert insisted that ‘enough is enough’ and later told ZBM news that the union still was not satisfied that KFC was acting in good faith.Charging that “employers are hell-bent on rolling back the gains of organised labour”, he said his members were “still hoping to sit down and have fruitful discussions bringing this thing to resolution”.“The union still intends to abide by the law by going to arbitration,” he said.However, in a letter to The Royal Gazette which is published in today’s paper, KFC Bermuda Limited boss Jason Benevides denied that his firm had ever agreed to have “outstanding issues with the BIU settled by binding arbitration”.“An “Agreement” should be just that,” writes Mr Benevides, “a contract where the contents have been agreed between the parties. Once freely agreed, the provisions of that Agreement should be honoured by all parties, including any provision for termination.“A contract unwillingly imposed by a third party is not by any definition an agreement — it’s just an imposed contract.”In his letter Mr Benevides also takes the opportunity to “clarify the company’s position which has been inaccurately represented by the BIU and BTUC in the past week”. And in response to Mr Fubert’s assertion that KFC is not “acting in good faith”, the KFC boss suggests it is actually the other way around.“The BTUC has suggested that KFCB is violating a section of the Trade Union Act 1965 which requires an employer and a union to negotiate in good faith for collective bargaining,” writes Mr Benevides. “KFCB has consistently and publicly committed to participate in good faith negotiations with the BIU and continues to maintain that offer.“Meanwhile, the BIU walked away from negotiations in March, 2012 and has since publicly refused to return to negotiations unless some unreasonable and unnecessary preconditions are met. It seems clear that if any party is violating the terms of section 30L of the Trade Union Act 1965 it is the BIU.”KFC owners filed a writ in Supreme Court this month asking for a judicial review of Economy Minister Patrice Minors’ decision to send the dispute to arbitration. On Thursday, Government announced it would take KFC to court over its plans to seek judicial review.The BIU have also got themselves legal representation, with Mr Furbert confirming yesterday that the union has retained the law firm of Trott and Duncan as their attorneys. Lawyer Delory Duncan was among those who attended the packed BIU meeting, and addressed the workers during the roughly 90 minutes long meeting.Meanwhile, commuters were able to make alternative arrangements to public transportation to get to work yesterday, due to the advance notice of the meeting.Smith’s resident Megan Richardson said she learned about the service stoppage on Thursday night, and was left scrambling to find a ride into Hamilton.“We need a little more warning than this,” she said.”People need to get to work. If I didn’t happen to watch the news, I guess I would be stuck.”Taxi drivers reported a brisk business during the morning rush hour period.