AFTER disgruntled hotel workers picketed outside of the Atlantis resort over unresolved issues with their industrial agreement, Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar expressed his disappointment in the Bahamas Hotel Catering & Allied Workers Union. Speaking to The Tribune outside of the House of Assembly yesterday, Mr D’Aguilar said he was extremely disappointed that at a critical period like Thanksgiving holiday period, the union would conduct a demonstration - while last night an injunction was taken out against workers from picketing at Atlantis by the Island Hotel Company. “As you can imagine our tourism sector was inflicted with millions upon millions of dollars of negative public relations as a result of Hurricane Dorian. The tourism sector is reeling from the effects of that negative public relations,” said Mr D’Aguilar. “Anything at this time that negatively impacts our tourism sector like industrial action, compounds, causes another problem on top of another problem.”

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