Trade unionist Caswell Franklyn said he will challenge in court the Fair Trading Commission’s (FTC) decision to grant the Barbados Light & Power Company an interim rate increase.
General secretary of the Unity Workers Union, Caswell Franklyn, is claiming that Government has included “safe zones” in the recently published Emergency Management (COVID-19) (No.4) Directive, 2022. Under Section 18 of the Emergency Management (COVID-19) Order, 2022, which came into effect last Thursday and expires on April 7, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley may, on the advice of the Chief Medical Officer, issue a directive designating any area, business or …
Head of the Unity Workers’ Union (UWU), Caswell Franklyn, is warning Government that each day it fails to address the ongoing strike by nurses is an increase in the risk of losing a significant portion of Barbados’ health sector human resources to overseas recruiters. Franklyn, who has led a more than two-month-long strike of close to 200 nurses, said United States recruiters have asked him to be the point person …
Hopes for an end to the impasse between striking nurses and Government by Christmas have been dashed. Head of the Unity Workers’ Union, Senator Caswell Franklyn, the man who has led the three-week-long industrial action, told the Sunday Sun that plans for an intermediary to broker a peace have fallen through. Franklyn said a meeting was scheduled for 9.30 a.m. on Christmas Eve, but half an hour before the scheduled …
There has been no deal between Government and Unity Workers’ Union to end the more than two-week nurses’ strike. General secretary Senator Caswell Franklyn said yesterday no one had not reached out to his union. “There has been no official word from Government about anything,” he told the MIDWEEK NATION. On Monday, Franklyn said the strike would end once the deal Government proposed that day with the Barbados Nurses’ Association …