UNIVERSITY of The Bahamas professors have moved to petition the institution's board over its expired industrial agreement, having "lost faith" in the university president's "ability" to conclude negotiations. The University of Tertiary Educators (UTEB) said in a statement it has reached an "impasse" with university president Dr Rodney Smith, whom union president Daniel Thompson said has "demonised" the union's requests to date. Mr Thompson said that rather than "respecting" the union's collective professional pedigree, Dr Smith is insistent on playing "hard ball" with the union and "fighting" against the university's "main stakeholders", something he asserted isn't sustainable.

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