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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...

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 ...

Doris Cholmondeley Webster, a Founding member of the Bermuda Industrial Union, has died at the age of 105. Mrs Webster was born in 1909, the daughter of Henry and Mary Douglas. While she was forced to give up on education at the age of 15 when her f...

Bermuda’s two biggest unions are willing to work with Government to implement cost-saving measures put forward by the SAGE Commission. Acknowledging that the Island’s $331 million debt burden is not sustainable — and that Government needs to slash it...

Civil servants should not have been allowed to enter the SAGE Commission’s ideas contest because their inside knowledge and privileged access to information gave them an unfair advantage, says Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert. “I thin...

Bermuda’s 2013 Labour Day weekend may enter the history books as the one where the fervour was high, and the tenor unmistakably austere. And giving impact to it all, was the “Fasten Your Seat-Belts” alert from Bermuda Industrial President Chris Fur...

Community activist Raymond Russell is calling for an investigation into the accounts of the Bermuda Industrial Union, accusing organisation chiefs of financial mismanagement. And the ardent supporter of worker’s rights — who has now filed a police co...

Bermuda Industrial Union President Chris Furbert has joined calls for the unemployed to make their presence felt on Labour Day. And he said his union will continue pushing for changes to some of the Island’s labour laws. In a wide-ranging interview, ...

Following a long-simmering labour dispute, unionised dock workers and Stevedoring Services are to join forces on a retroactive collective bargaining agreement. In a joint statement issued yesterday, both the company and the port worker division of th...

Bermuda Industrial Union leader Chris Furbert has rejected as “utter nonsense” a statement that workers at Kentucky Fried Chicken (Bermuda) had accepted a contract they had rejected last year. The company had sought to write a new agreement when the ...

The Royal Gazette took to the streets to discover what residents thought about Bermuda Industrial Union workers and KFC (Bermuda) finally reaching an agreement over contracts. The two parties battled until recently, when staff accepted the deal they’...