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The island’s blue-collar union is backing rallies to protest at police brutality inflicted on black people in America. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, said he was “100 per cent” behind the demonstrations, which have spre...

Proposed temporary changes to employment law to help employers get round the legal requirement to make a laid-off worker redundant after four months were attacked yesterday by a union leader. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Uni...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to the family of the venerable Dr. Eva Naomi Hodgson on the unfortunate occasion of her recent passing. Dr. Hodgson lived a warrior’s life, fighting tooth and nail for...

A meeting called by the Bermuda Industrial Union for this morning delayed the limited reintroduction of a bus service “until further notice”, the Government said last night. The Department of Public Transportation said the eleventh-hour cancellation ...

The Premier complained last night that negotiations with unions and employers’ associations had got into the public domain. An angry David Burt lamented the release of sensitive negotiations with unions being shared with the public, as he revealed th...

“There is no greater challenge and there is no greater honour than to be in public service” — Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State I often read online and social-media comments regarding the call for civil servants’ wages and salaries to ...

Donald Lottimore, the president of the Bermuda Trade Union Congress, urged against going back to business as usual after the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr Lottimore said Bermuda must be run for people and not for profit in a statement released to mark Intern...

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted “deep-rooted inequities and gaps in our country’s social safety net”, the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union said tonight. Armell Thomas, speaking on the eve of International Workers’ Day, asked the G...

Civil servants will not agree to austerity measures until there is a clear plan for the economy, the head of the island’s white collar union warned last night. Armell Thomas, the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, highlighted the crucial...

The Government was asked today to make personal protective equipment available to all healthcare and other at-risk workers as the Bermuda Public Services Union marked World Health Day. Linda Bogle Mienzer, the BPSU second vice-president, said that th...

The head of the island’s teachers union has slammed a decision to dock the wages of teachers who took industrial action in February. Nishanthi Bailey, the president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that she had “no other option than to withdraw...

Bus drivers tasked with transporting hospital staff refused to work because they were not provided with personal protective equipment, the Bermuda Public Services Union announced today. Armell Thomas, the union president, said Department of Public Tr...