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Workers took to the streets for two days of industrial action as a row about voting rights for union decertification escalated. The Bermuda Industrial Union warned that it had the power to bring down the Government if it failed to give in to its dema...

An educator told the Supreme Court that the Bermuda Union of Teachers had blocked him from running for union office after he sought to raise serious concerns with members. Leonard Santucci, the BUT representative for the Berkeley Institute, had calle...

Disagreements over the Covid-19 vaccine have created an atmosphere of “toxicity and disharmony” in the workplace, a union leader claimed yesterday. Armell Thomas, the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, said that there were “divisions” be...

An official was yesterday suspended from the teachers’ union after he claimed the executive had violated its constitution. Leonard Santucci, who was the Bermuda Union of Teachers representative at the Berkeley Institute, was told in a letter from Ant...

Occupational safety and health should be recognised as “a fundamental right”, the Bermuda Public Services Union declared. The BPSU joined labour groups worldwide with UNI Global Union, a global unions federation, in marking World Day for Decent Work ...

Delays in garbage collection in the West End were signalled yesterday because of a “disruption in the labour force” over Covid-19 health regulations. A spokesman for the public works ministry said there were delays to trash pickups yesterday and that...

Industrial action by unionised workers today in protest at new union decertification laws has been called off at the eleventh hour. Chris Furbert, the Bermuda Industrial Union president, said that in the interests of reopening dialogue between the un...

Chris Furbert levelled a threat in a recent address without any hint of frailty in saying that labour could bring down the Progressive Labour Party government. He went on to say that there are five members on the back bench they could count on for su...

Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, said the Government was committed to strengthen relationships with the island’s unions in the face of an ongoing dispute over decertification. Mr Hayward said in his Labour Day message: “Despite recent challenge...

With the Labour Day weekend approaching, it is incumbent that some response be made to the Letter to the Editor by Robert Stewart, which was published on Thursday, September 2, 2021. This, since the day offers a period of reflection on the key matter...

Labour Day belongs to the hard-working men and women of Bermuda. They have worked hard and continue to work hard to build a better life for themselves and their families. On this day, they deserve to relax and to enjoy some hard-earned rest and relax...

The traditional Labour Day celebrations have become the latest victim of Covid-19 after organisers called off the event. The day, held on the first Monday of September, is marked with a march through Hamilton by representatives of all the island’s un...