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About 25 dockers formed a picket line at Hamilton Docks yesterday to protest against a move to outsource work. Staff from Stevedoring Services Ltd held signs including “Lies Lies!”, “Tricks” and “Workers’ Rights” from about 8am. Allan Butterfield, wh...

Stevedores are to down tools and picket the docks today in protest after the operators brought in outside staff to do mechanical work over the weekend. The news came after Stevedoring Services dockers walked off the job in Hamilton earlier yesterday ...

A drop in communications between the firm running the Hamilton docks and the union representing much of its staff was acknowledged last night by Chris Furbert, president of the Bermuda Industrial Union. Warren Jones, the chief executive of Stevedorin...

Dock-workers are working on suspended overtime in protest at cost-cutting measures implemented at Stevedoring Services Limited, which operates the port of Hamilton. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, confirmed yesterday tha...

A potential deal between hotels and unionised staff was rejected by the workers in the unionised hotel division, it was revealed yesterday. Stephen Todd, the chief executive of the Bermuda Hotel Association and the Hotel Employers of Bermuda, confirm...

A labour dispute between the Attorney-General’s Chambers and a white-collar union has been declared, over liability insurance for government lawyers. Ed Ball, the general secretary of the Bermuda Public Services Union, said yesterday the dispute revo...

Public servants have been warned that they will not be paid if they fail to report to work during the Covid-19 crisis after the Premier expressed his disappointment at transport workers who withdrew their labour. David Burt said that minibus operator...

The Government is to help workers laid off in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the labour minister has said. Lovitta Foggo said: “The Government of Bermuda understands the financial position of employers as it relates to the continued operation and...

A blame game has broken out after local construction firms claimed they were unpaid for months of work on the new power plant deemed “essential” for Bermuda’s energy future. Three Bermudian contractors, who spoke this week with The Royal Gazette unde...

Prison officers claimed there was a “narrow-mindedness and short-sightedness” in the Government last night after they won a Supreme Court battle against changes that required them to make health insurance payments. They added that the legal action, w...

The Labour Dispute Tribunal defended its decision to require prison officers to make health insurance payments on the second day of a Supreme Court hearing. While the Government maintained that prison officers were never promised free health insuranc...

A former employee at a cleaning firm that closed this month said that she and other employees were still owed back wages. The woman, who asked not to be named, said she and “more than 30” other former workers at Just Cleaners Ltd were still due mone...