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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 …