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Members of an independent tribunal established to hear disputes between unions and employers have been selected. Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, selected 28 members to serve on the Employment and Labour Relations Tribunal for the next three ye...

Sixteen welders have been trained up in connecting pipes as part of the island’s wastewater infrastructure upgrades, the public works minister announced. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said the accreditation through McElroy Manufacturing had been arr...

A three-year collective bargaining agreement has been agreed between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the Bermuda Hospitals Board – that will last for another three months. Now both sides are getting ready for the next round of negotiations for a new...

Crunch talks are expected today at the Bermuda Industrial Union as a labour dispute at the hardware and construction supplier SAL Southampton dragged on for a third day. Wornell Steede, chief union shop steward at SAL, said yesterday that management ...

Staff at the hardware store SAL did not work for a second day yesterday following a dispute with management over the potential firing of a longstanding colleague. Wornell Steede, chief union shop steward at SAL, said about 15 staff members walked off...

Two members of the Bermuda Public Service Union have been appointed to secretariat positions, the union announced yesterday. Kevin Grant has been named the BPSU’s General Secretary, while Linda Bogle-Mienzer has been named the Labour Relations Organi...

A union leader is calling for tougher penalties for “unscrupulous employers” who try to weaken union representation. Armell Thomas, the president of the the Bermuda Public Service Union, said membership in some bargaining units was under threat from ...

The Bermuda Industrial Union has yet to decide if it will take further industrial action over a long-running dispute with Government. Unionised staff began working to rule last Friday in protest at new decertification laws that give non-unionised sta...

“Every aspect” of the island’s public transport system will feel the pinch from a weeklong union restriction on working hours, the transport minister warned. Lawrence Scott said bus cancellations could reach as many as 100 routes a day and ferry rout...

Bus and ferry schedules are likely to be disrupted as a result of union action this week. Members of the Bermuda Industrial Union are currently working to rule due to a dispute with Government over new decertification rules. This morning a spokeswom...