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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...

The March 25, 1953 General Election was pivotal to the movement for social progress in Bermuda. Activists had quietly facilitated a deft move and outwitted the shenanigans of the oligarchy, enabling E.F. Gordon to secure re-election to represent St G...

Finances to start the much anticipated redevelopment of the Fairmont Southampton are now in place

The Bermuda Industrial Union yesterday backed a $50m government guarantee for the redevelopment of the island’s biggest resort. Chris Furbert, the union’s president, criticised the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance for demanding answers from the ruling...

Workers at the Fairmont Southampton will get increased wages because of a new collective bargaining agreement highlighted in the Budget statement. But the hotel may initiate layoffs if occupancy falls below 85 per cent compared with the 75 per cent t...

Unionised public transport workers said yesterday that complaints about the director of the public transport department were unresolved more than a month after they filed a motion of no confidence. A spokeswoman said the no-confidence motion against ...

The leader of the island’s blue collar union has accused the ruling Progressive Labour Party of an attack on its core support. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, hit out yesterday as he demanded stricter enforcement of work...

A decision on the future of a senior official at the Bermuda Industrial Union who claimed he was ousted against union rules is to be made next month. The Royal Gazette understands that a special delegates’ conference of the BIU will discuss the d...

It was a summer of discontent as a row between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the Government over decertification votes in the workplace heated up. Chris Furbert, the Bermuda Industrial Union president, insisted at the start of the month the union ...

Workers took to the streets for two days of industrial action as a row about voting rights for union decertification escalated. The Bermuda Industrial Union warned that it had the power to bring down the Government if it failed to give in to its dema...

Bus drivers went on strike yesterday after industrial action by Bermuda Industrial Union members, the Ministry of Transport said. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, speaking on ZBM last night, said the dispute centred aroun...

The single protester who refused to accept a confidential government payout to people pepper sprayed outside Parliament five years ago today still wants his day in court. Craig Looby insists police used excessive force during a clash with demonstrato...