Former candidate appealing decision on union poll

Wed, Feb 16th 2011, 04:55 AM

A former presidential candidate in the Bahamas Electrical Workers?Union (BEWU)?elections is appealing the decision of the Registrar of Trade?Unions, Harcourt Brown to declare last month’s poll null and void.
Clyde Cartwright, who was one of three candidates vying for the top post, is appealing to Labour Minister Dion Foulkes to overturn the ruling.
The BEWU represents hundreds of line-staff workers at the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC).
Brown declared the poll null and void after it was discovered that Dexter Cartwright, a security supervisor, was nominated and ran for the post of secretary general contrary to a provision in the union’s constitution. That provision sta ...

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