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The Government should reduce duty on all goods by at least 20 per cent to address the cost-of-living crisis, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union has asserted. Chris Furbert was speaking at the first of four town hall meetings organised by ...

The island’s soaring cost of living will be the topic of a series of town hall meetings organised this month by the Bermuda Industrial Union. The move comes in the wake of legislation tabled on Friday in the House of Assembly to eliminate import duti...

Prison officers are working in dangerous conditions as they work to manage a growing number of serious criminals, according to the chair of the Prison Officers Association. Timothy Seon, addressing a crowd in advance of the 2022 Labour Day march, sai...

The Government has denied it withheld encrypted e-mails from the public about a taxpayer-funded payout of almost a quarter of a million dollars to protesters who shut down Parliament. But it did not release the messages yesterday nor did it give any...

A labour stalwart who marked 51 years of full-time service was celebrated by MPs today for her dedication to workers’ rights. Helena “Molly” Burgess, the general secretary of the Bermuda Industrial Union, was described as a “true trade unionist” when...

Let me offer a qualified commendation to the Bermuda Industrial Union for its two-page presentation in The Royal Gazette on Tuesday, headlined “Bermuda High Cost of Living (compared to Switzerland, Norway, Ireland and Bahamas)”. To be clear, I’m not...

A public clash over trade union decertification that sparked threats of industrial action last year “should have been handled better”, the Government and the Bermuda Industrial Unions have agreed. David Burt, the Premier, said yesterday the two sides...

A longstanding hospitality worker who became a hotel chef at a time when few women could be found in the trade was also a union and Progressive Labour Party stalwart. A proud lifelong Somerset resident, Viola “Pinky” Rogers embarked on hotel work in ...

Dear Sir, On behalf of my fellow former presidents of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, I would like to express best wishes to our most senior former president, Elizabeth Kawaley, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday. I’m sure that we share the...

Bus drivers will move to their summer rosters next Monday, and this should result in fewer service cancellations, the Government said last night. The announcement came after services were cancelled yesterday morning for meetings between drivers and ...

Bus services will halt for three hours today as staff meet to discuss ways to improve the service. A Government spokeswoman said the meeting, to be held at the Bermuda Industrial Union, mean services will be suspended between 10am and 1pm. The spokes...

Redundancy payments to Fairmont Southampton workers were written into budgeted costs for the hotel’s redevelopment even before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the head of the company that owns the resort said. But Karim Alibhai, the founder and head of Ge...