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Bus and ferry services ground to a halt yesterday after a strike over procedures for union decertification votes. A Government spokeswoman said Bermuda Industrial Union workers in several departments downed tools. She added that landscaping work at ...

At this writing, tensions are mounting over a labour dispute between the Bermuda Government and the Bermuda Industrial Union over an issue regarding who should or should not be eligible to vote on the matter of union decertification. This for the un...

A union leader has threatened the Premier with a major strike unless changes to decertification votes in workplaces are ditched. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, wrote to David Burt that a “two day shutdown” had been appr...

A labour dispute at a West End hardware and construction supplier is headed for mediation talks today. It marks one week since more than a dozen staff at SAL Southampton walked off the job over what they claimed was the threatened dismissal of a gar...

A weeklong work dispute deadlock at a Southampton construction supplier SAL is said to be headed to the Labour Relations Department today. Fifteen staff from SAL Southampton remained off the job all this week over what was said to be a threat to sack...

Crunch talks are expected today at the Bermuda Industrial Union as a labour dispute at the hardware and construction supplier SAL Southampton dragged on for a third day. Wornell Steede, chief union shop steward at SAL, said yesterday that management ...

The Bermuda Industrial Union last night denied responsibility for a cruise ship’s cancellation of visits to St George’s. A BIU spokeswoman said the union’s work to rule would end at midnight last night – before the Viking Orion’s first scheduled visi...

The Viking Orion has cancelled a two-day visit to St George’s after a union work to rule meant a tender was not available to ferry passengers to shore. The cruise ship had planned to visit the town on Friday and Saturday with a tender, provided by t...

“Every aspect” of the island’s public transport system will feel the pinch from a weeklong union restriction on working hours, the transport minister warned. Lawrence Scott said bus cancellations could reach as many as 100 routes a day and ferry rout...

A trade union has backed down in its battle with Government over a controversial change to labour law to allow non-unionised workers to vote on decertification. The row broke out after legislation was passed at the start of the year that allowed non...

Forty years ago today, Bermuda was rocked by what would become the island's first and, to date, only general strike. The ramifications of that strike remain with the island to this day. Bermuda was a different place in 1981 than it is in 2021. The fi...