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An activist, a union leader and politicians celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Bermuda Workers Association’s founding

Dear Sir, I must say I was stunned when I read the comments made by Chris Furbert, as quoted in The Royal Gazette on October 22, 2022 regarding the Fairmont Southampton hotel. Mr Furbert rightly pointed out that “a full economic recovery plan must ...

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...

Tonight’s town hall meeting on the redevelopment of the Fairmont Southampton Resort has finished. You can see a YouTube video of the meeting here. David Burt, the Premier, was joined by Vance Campbell, the tourism minister, and Chris Furbert, the pr...

The December 2, 2016 protest was not the first mass demonstration to take place during the One Bermuda Alliance’s term in office. A number of rallies were staged in the months before that day. On July 15, 2014, there was a massive march on Governmen...

I had hoped never to have to write about an issue such as this episode between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the Government — in reality, about Chris Furbert and David Burt, the leaders of both groups. The stated issue of disagreement over the tra...

Proposed temporary changes to employment law to help employers get round the legal requirement to make a laid-off worker redundant after four months were attacked yesterday by a union leader. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Uni...

Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert has warned “the same thing” could happen again if the airport redevelopment debate goes ahead on Friday. Mr Furbert told The Royal Gazette the chances of a repeat of last week’s protest outside the Hou...

Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, has been named as the keynote speaker at the annual Labour Day Banquet taking place next week. Mr Furbert will be the first sitting BIU president to deliver the keynote speech. A BIU state...

A fundraiser aimed at helping to purchase athletic uniforms for children has raised about $7,000 according to organisers. The Big Dell Run took place last Saturday with teachers, parents, celebrities and alumni taking to the Victor Scott School field...

Politicians may have been excluded from speaking at Labour Day commemorations, but yesterday’s celebration of workers’ rights came with an unrelenting condemnation of the policies of the One Bermuda Alliance Government. “The critics are out there,” w...