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Air Canada flights to and from the Island scheduled for later this week could be in jeopardy as flight attendants prepare to go on strike. According to the airline, it received a strike notice from the Canadian Union of Public Employees, who represen...

Civil servants marched on Cabinet last week demanding more help for struggling families and they pledged to do it again to ensure their calls for no redundancies and a price freeze on essential services are heard. But are the current tensions with G...

Ottiwell Simmons was president of the Bermuda Industrial Union at the time of the strike and a figurehead for the labour movement. Now aged 77 and a retired MP, he works for Government as coordinator of parish councils. “It obviously had its toll on ...

The Royal Gazette was inundated with comments on the bus strike yesterday both on the comments’ section on our website story and on our Facebook pages. Most were very unflattering towards Government with just a handful supporting the reinstatement of...

Transport Minister Terry Lister last night defended his decision to give a fired bus worker back his job and said avoiding a showdown with unions was in the best interests of the country. “It's not a question of backing down. It's a question of ensur...

As the bus strike continued yesterday people took to public forums to express their views on the industrial action. Those who commented on The Royal Gazette’s Facebook page claimed the veteran driver, whose firing led to the dispute, was in the wrong...

Buses are not running as a result of industrial action taken by drivers following the firing of a colleague. Service stopped at 4.20pm today. The Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) held a press conference to announce the work stoppage. Members took indus...

There comes a time when the people have to act directly to bring about necessary change. The raison d’être almost always involves the failure of the formal political process politicians to move decisively on issues people want to see addressed. Direc...