June 4, 2021
An unprecedented bid has surfaced to make Akanni McDowall the first Secretary General of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW),
Barbados TODAY can reveal.
Some 150 union members have signed a petition to trigger a special meeting to put the case for McDowall, the incumbent president, to be installed as Secretary General for the next four years with immediate effect.
But the petition, which has McDowall’s tacit support, has been slammed by the acting general secretary of the nation’s largest public workers union and threatens to drive deeper fractures in a union leadership that has already been splintered by years of rancour and controversy.
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