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The Viking Orion has cancelled a two-day visit to St George’s after a union work to rule meant a tender was not available to ferry passengers to shore. The cruise ship had planned to visit the town on Friday and Saturday with a tender, provided by t...

“With friends like these, who needs enemies” — Joey Adams This expression is timely when we consider that one’s close associates can often prove to be more adversarial and damaging than one’s enemy or opponents. The quote above is very applic...

“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...

A work to rule by Bermuda Industrial Union workers started yesterday as a rift with the Government over union decertification widened. Chris Furbert, the BIU president, said both sides had “drawn lines in the sand on the issue”. He added: “Is this so...

An economist yesterday accused the government of failing to face up to the scale of the island’s economic crisis. Robert Stubbs – a member of the Wage Commission – added the government’s failure to take immediate action on minimum wages was harming B...

The Bermuda Industrial Union has been left “out in the cold” by the island’s second largest trade union in the fight over decertification but will fight on, its president said yesterday. Chris Furbert, the BIU president, said the union was “not goin...

Forty years ago today, Bermuda was rocked by what would become the island's first and, to date, only general strike. The ramifications of that strike remain with the island to this day. Bermuda was a different place in 1981 than it is in 2021. The fi...

The historic 1981 General Strike that changed the island’s political direction and a tourism economy that was the envy of other destinations started 40 years ago today. The island’s biggest labour dispute in its history capped a decade of social unre...

Human societies undergo shifts from time to time; for the better or the worse. The sources of those shifts are never fully understood — shrouded in some mystery. In the spring of 1981, during a dispute that mushroomed into a general strike, there...

Human societies undergo shifts from time to time; for the better or the worse. The sources of those shifts are never fully understood — shrouded in some mystery. In the spring of 1981, during a dispute that mushroomed into a general strike, there...