Port and stevedores at impasse, 200 containers left waiting
Tonight, there are 200 containers at the Port of Belize, waiting to be unloaded; but they may have
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Tonight, there are 200 containers at the Port of Belize, waiting to be unloaded; but they may have
While the CWU hopes for the trial to be struck down, the PBL wants to take the battle
Jul 22, 2021 Sugar Ship Moved to Big Creek: Union Says Fight Not Over for Stevedores Their ship may have left the Port of Belize, but Belize City stevedores say they will continue to challenge Cabinet’s decision to allow the ships they have been offloading sugar from to begin docking in Big Creek. News Five’s Paul Lopez has more on this week’s developments. Paul Lopez, Reporting The Belize Sugar Industries/ ASR group has relocated its sugar loading operations from the Port of Belize facility in Belize City to the Big Creek Port in Stann Creek District. The stevedores who wor...
Jul 15, 2021 Evan “Mose” Hyde In an update to the looming labor dispute at the Port of Belize, P.B.L. has reportedly agreed to meet with the Christian Workers Union next week. The union has served the port with a twenty-one-day notice of intended industrial action because stevedores fear they will be losing wages if the company which exports sugar at the port and hires workers to offload it, A.S.R./B.S.I., shifts its operations to the port at Big Creek. While the C.W.U. said yesterday they wanted negotiations, President Mose Hyde says the union stands ready to sit down with t...