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Accusing management of the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) of trying to block workers from joining his union, General Secretary of the Unity Workers’ Union (UWU) Caswell Franklyn is warning he will take the matter as far as the courts if necessary.Franklyn told Barbados TODAY that approximately 80 SSA workers have filled out application forms to join the UWU. However, several of them have complained to him that their requests for the SSA’s accounts department to stop deducting National Un...

Scores of “frustrated” Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) workers at the Wildey, St Michael depot are boycotting the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) and joining the Unity Workers’ Union (UWU).On Wednesday morning, workers turned up for a scheduled meeting with NUPW officials to get an update on the union’s discussions with management last month about their concerns and demands, which include wage, hazard pay and washing allowance increases.However, some of them expressed dissatis...

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 (UWU) Caswell Franklyn is threatening to take action against the National Sports Council (NSC) over its decision not to renew the contract of Superintendent of the National Stadium Ivor Worrell.Franklyn has alleged that Worrell, who held the position since January 2020, was unfairly dismissed and has warned that unless he is reinstated, he will be taking the matter to the Employment Rights Tribunal.“I will not let it rest,” he insisted.Accordin...

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 …

General secretary of Unity Workers’ Union (UWU), Caswell Franklyn, says a major development is on the horizon in the ongoing nurses’ strike. However, he did not say what it is or exactly when it will be. “Not yet,” he said yesterday, “but it’s going to be big. I can’t give any more details right now.” The UWU is embroiled in a nine-week nurses’ strike, which started with a handful of …

UWU says nurses have lost confidence in BNA, NUPW

Workers at the Bowling Green Kentucky GM assembly plant overwhelmingly vote down a local agreement while 1,000 Teck Resources copper miners in British Columbia have accepted a new agreement.

Once the green light from the COVID-19 Monitoring Unit (CMU) is given, nurses from the Unity Workers’ Union will participate in a demonstration in The City again on Monday. Yesterday, general secretary of the union, Caswell Franklyn, said the march was to keep public attention on the nurses’ concerns, adding that he did not want their issues to shadow the ongoing election climate. “The next demonstration would keep the public’s …