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Just under 100 workers returned to the British Colonial Hilton when it re-opened a fortnight ago, the hotel union s president has told Tribune Business.
Darrin Woods, the Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union s (BHCAWU) president, said it was “had to tell” how 2021 will shape up for the tourism industry due to ongoing uncertainty associated with COVID-19 and related vaccines, and the resulting impact this will have on traveller confidence.
He added: “Everything is really hinges on what happens with COVID-19 and how this affects the travelling public, as we ve been seeing. So we really need to see what the final weeks in 2020 bring, and the first couple of weeks in 2021.”
The Fuller Project
In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot videos as she and her co-workers slid down a metal shoot (technically meant for empty boxes) in the store room, their heads falling back laughing, and posted them on TikTok. Another, uploaded on 13th October, shows the giant black-and-red “Everything Must go!” posters hanging from ceiling to floor, and an eerily half-empty basement section.
“Slowing losing my job,” she wrote in the caption, days before the store in Delano, California shut for good, just one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June this year.
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Woods disappointed that Bannister won’t meet with WSC unions Desmond Bannister. FILE
Bahamas Utilities Service and Allied Workers Union (BUSAWU) President Dwayne Woods yesterday expressed disappointment with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Works Desmond Bannister’s decision not to meet with the two unions at the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) amid concerns about WSC’s decision to defer Christmas bonuses.
BUSAWU and the Water and Sewerage Management Union (WSMU) were expected to meet with the minister last Thursday.
However, that meeting did not happen.
On Friday, Bannister said that he will not meet with union leaders because they decided to take “industrial action” before meeting with him.