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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...

The Bermuda Industrial Union today put pressure on the Government to change its policy to force unvaccinated arrivals to undergo a mandatory two week supervised quarantine. The union also asked the Bermuda Hotel Association to rethink its requirement...

The Bermuda Industrial Union last night denied responsibility for a cruise ship’s cancellation of visits to St George’s. A BIU spokeswoman said the union’s work to rule would end at midnight last night – before the Viking Orion’s first scheduled visi...

The Bermuda Industrial Union’s work-to-rule and overtime ban will do the union more harm than good. But that may not stop it from escalating the dispute, and causing harm to the wider community on an issue where it has neither right nor logic on its...

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...