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April 17, 2024
Govt remains hopeful that 'open communication' prevents industrial action from BCPMU & BCPOU

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Minister of Labour and Public Service Pia Glover-Rolle told media Wednesday morning that the Director of Labour Howard Thompson Jr is conducting meetings with both the Bahamas Communications Public Managers Union (BCPMU) and the Bahamas Communications and Public Officers Union (BCPOU) to ensure that all parties are on one accord to avoid [...]

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April 02, 2024
FOLLOWING: Fire breaks out near Airport Industrial Park

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A fire has reportedly broken out in the area of Airport Industrial Park and near the Old Fort Bay town Centre. Footage sent by passing motorists to Eyewitness News from Oracle Media Consultants shows dense smoke obscuring the roadway as firefighters attempt to put out the fire. This is a developing story.

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February 01, 2024
Hotel Union: It's Time For Industrial Action

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - The bell has rung and the time for talk is over. President of The Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union Darrin Woods says the union will be taking action.

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January 31, 2024
BLACKOUT: Hotel union intensifies industrial action threat over failed negotiations

NASSAU, BAHAMAS- The Bahamas Hotel, Catering, and Allied Workers Union is taking its industrial action to another level as hotel workers are engaging in a "blackout" period to voice their grievances over failed negotiations for workers who fall under the tipping scale. Union President Darrin Woods brought the issue to head in local headlines last week [...]

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January 29, 2024
Man, 25, seriously injured following industrial accident at GB Shipyard

NASSAU, BAHAMAS- A 25-year-old male remains hospitalized as a result of an industrial accident that occurred shortly before 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, 28th January 2024 at the Grand Bahama Shipyard. According to preliminary reports, the worker became trapped between a crane and pieces of steel, resulting in injuries to his upper body. He was transported to [...]

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January 05, 2024
Hotel union signs new five year industrial agreement with Graycliff

NASSAU, BAHAMAS- The Bahamas Hotel Catering & Allied Workers Union has inked a new five-year industrial agreement with Graycliff Hotel & Restaurant. Darrin Woods, BHCAWU President, says that he is satisfied with the new agreement which he says will benefit 50 of his members.

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October 20, 2023
LABOUR WOES: Bahamas Hotel Catering & Allied Workers Union threatens KFC with industrial action

NASSAU, BAHAMAS- President of the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU) Darren Woods has warned that 380 Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) workers are set to take industrial action. Woods says the industrial action is the union's last resort following eight years of stalled negotiations. The BHCAWU chief told Eyewitness News that KFC negotiators are [...]

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September 14, 2021
No airlines interrupted by industrial action, says aviation director

Besides minor delays, no airlines were affected operationally from the "illegal" sickout by some airport workers under the Bahamas Public Services Union (BPSU), Director of Aviation Algernon Cargill told Guardian Business yesterday.

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December 20, 2011
KFC INDUSTRIAL TALKSCONTINUE MOVE FORWARDS

NEGOTIATIONS between Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and hotel union executives on a new industrial agreement are ongoing, with headway being made on the Christmas bonus issue, Tribune Business was told yesterday.

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April 18, 2024
New industrial agreement signed between the Airport Authority and Public Managers Union, 55 employees to benefit

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The Airport Authority and the Public Managers Union (PMU) signed a long awaited industrial agreement at  Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) on Thursday morning. PMU President Leslie Munnings said he is joyous about the historic occasion; he highlighted that the first-time industrial agreement signing will play a role in laying the foundation [...]

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