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Former premiers from both sides of the political divide yesterday appealed to modern politicians to work together for the good of the island. Sir John Swan, a United Bermuda Party premier, and Alex Scott, a Progressive Labour Party premier, said gove...

Veterans of the 1981 General Strike were applauded yesterday outside the former headquarters of the Bermuda Industrial Union. A small crowd gathered to commemorate the landmark event 40 years on. Chris Furbert, the BIU president, read a declaration o...

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...

The historic 1981 General Strike that changed the island’s political direction and a tourism economy that was the envy of other destinations started 40 years ago today. The island’s biggest labour dispute in its history capped a decade of social unre...

A civil servant helped broker a deal in the island’s worst industrial relations stalemate, trade unionists said yesterday. They said the “tireless” work of Kenneth Richardson, who was Permanent Secretary at the labour and home affairs ministry at the...

Activists will livestream a commemoration today to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1981 General Strike. Glenn Fubler, a community activist and founder of Imagine Bermuda, said it was a celebration of “the largest peaceful protest in our history”. Th...

Human societies undergo shifts from time to time; for the better or the worse. The sources of those shifts are never fully understood — shrouded in some mystery. In the spring of 1981, during a dispute that mushroomed into a general strike, there...

Human societies undergo shifts from time to time; for the better or the worse. The sources of those shifts are never fully understood — shrouded in some mystery. In the spring of 1981, during a dispute that mushroomed into a general strike, there...

Human societies undergo shifts from time to time; for the better or the worse. The sources of those shifts are never fully understood — shrouded in some mystery. In the spring of 1981, during a dispute that mushroomed into a general strike, there...

Human societies undergo shifts from time to time; for the better or the worse. The sources of those shifts are never fully understood — shrouded in some mystery. In the spring of 1981, during a dispute that mushroomed into a general strike, there...

Human societies undergo shifts from time to time; for the better or the worse. The sources of those shifts are never fully understood — shrouded in some mystery. In the spring of 1981, during a dispute that mushroomed into a general strike, there...

Human societies undergo shifts from time to time; for the better or the worse. The sources of those shifts are never fully understood — shrouded in some mystery. In the spring of 1981, during a dispute that mushroomed into a general strike, there...