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Labour dispute

Letters to the Editor

"It won’t be easy"

March 15, 2013 Dear Sir, There seems to me there are two different kinds of disrespect. One, very serious, with very serious consequences, and the other should be dealt within the framework of the family, privately, before it gets out of hand and bec...
Mar 20, 2013
Letters to the Editor

"Let them strike"

March 14, 2013 Dear Sir, There is little doubt that when the One Bermuda Alliance finally get around to addressing our bloated over staffed, over paid, under worked Civil Service, quango and blue collar workers with reduced hours and pay that all the...
Mar 20, 2013
Letters to the Editor

"The public have been disrespected"

March 15, 2013 Dear Sir, Your offices should be inundated with e-mails and letters concerning the headline of The Royal Gazette on March 15 ‘Disrespect from Government halts ferry service’. This coming from the Bermuda Industrial Union, are they kidd...
Mar 19, 2013
Letters to the Editor

"What Bermuda needs now"

March 17, 20123 Dear Sir, May I comment on the withdrawal of labour by the ferry boat operators. The leader of the Bermuda Industrial Union, Chris Furbert, stated the strike was necessary because Government has disrespected the union. There are six f...
Mar 19, 2013
Budget

"Ferry service returns to normal"

Bermuda Industrial Union President Chris Furbert has warned that further industrial action by workers cannot be ruled out unless Government starts showing the union respect. At a press conference yesterday announcing that Marine & Ports staff were re...
Mar 16, 2013
Budget

"Ferry riders complain of short notice for labour action"

Commuters expecting to take a leisurely cruise home were left disappointed when they arrived at Hamilton’s ferry terminal yesterday evening. The doors to the terminal were locked and, with no ferries waiting at the quayside, it soon became apparent t...
Mar 15, 2013
Other

"City trash collected late after industrial action"

Hamilton business workers were greeted by a pile up of trash along city streets when they arrived for work on Monday morning, due to an unscheduled work stoppage yesterday. A City of Hamilton spokesperson confirmed the trash was eventually collected ...
Mar 05, 2013
Budget

"KFC challenges arbitration order"

Lawyers acting for fast food franchise KFC Bermuda have moved to block an employment dispute at the restaurant from going to arbitration. And they also claim that former Economy Minister Patrice Minors “acted unreasonably and outside the parameters o...
Feb 27, 2013
Budget

"Unionised nurses aides could issue strike threat"

Nurses’ aides could take industrial action at the hospital unless a dormant pay rise is acted upon, the Bermuda Industrial Union has announced. The word came from BIU head Chris Furbert on the same day that unionised postal staff downed tools over a ...
Feb 02, 2013
Other

"‘Container Cliff’ looms as US docks prepare for strikes"

Bermuda’s shipping agents, and Government, are waiting anxiously for news on a potential longshoremen’s strike on the US East Coast. US media are reporting that 15 ports from Massachusetts to Texas, including New York and New Jersey, could be closed ...
Dec 24, 2012
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