Morton Bahamas Ltd. has threatened to lock employees out of its plant on Inagua after the Bahamas Industrial Manufacturers and Allied Workers Union (BIMAWU) failed to attend several meetings to negotiate a new industrial agreement, the company said yesterday.

The union and the Inagua-based salt company have been negotiating a new industrial agreement for several months.

“The foregoing requires the company to consider whether, in the declared industrial action climate, it is necessary for the company to lock employees out of the plant in furtherance of the company’s bargaining objectives in negotiations for a new industrial agreement,” Morton Bahamas Ltd. Chief Negotiator Christopher Getaz said in a June 18, 2019 letter to BIMAWU President Jennifer Brown.

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