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UNITED COMMERCIAL AUTOWORKS LIMITED (UCAL) is hanging on only “by the grace of God”, as it is owed millions of dollars and should have already closed its doors.
This was revealed by general secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union, Toni Moore, who said Government was one of the principal debtors.
“Government has not paid all of its debts owed to UCAL, more than $20 million. Over time, Government reneged on commitments made to UCAL . . . . [It] saw UCAL as an organisation it could pay when it remembered to or when it felt like, so UCAL has not been a success story . . . and will continue to face threats,” she said while a guest on Starcom Network’s Brass Tacks Sunday call-in programme over the weekend.
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THE DOOR has not been closed on an eventual reunion of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) and the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB).
The BWU seceded CTUSAB in 2013, with then general secretary Sir Roy Trotman outlining several reasons why the decision was made, one notably being what he said was a move to prevent the BWU from representing Barbados at the International Labour Organisation session in Geneva, Switzerland.
Moore said she did not want to rehash the “ugly stuff” of the past but acknowledged unions were at their strongest as one.
#BTEditorial – A labour landscape of unrest
Article by December 12, 2020
General Secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) and newly-minted Member of Parliament for St George North Toni Moore, must be pleased with the outcome of the more than decade-old dispute with global security firm G4S.
Securing a quick settlement to the dispute that threatened to explode into an all-out national industrial relations debacle was more than necessary. It was really a no-win situation for any of the parties involved had the fracture devolved into a national confrontation.
Prime Minister Mia Mottley was less than subtle, laying all the options she might pursue to bring the security firm to human understanding. G4S, a global brand would have done untold damage to its reputation if it was viewed as an exploitative employer that was prepared to subvert our country’s labour laws.
December 11, 2020
A national minimum wage, variable across industries, much talked about but never implemented, appears to have emerged from a deal to end the Barbados Workers’ Union’s standoff with guard firm G4S Solutions (Barbados) Ltd over pay.
After four days of negotiations, Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced “a seminal moment” in labour history in which the Government would move to a national pay floor by April while G4S agreed to raise its security officers’ wages from $7.42 an hour to $8.79 an hour from January 1.
The guards went on strike twice within the last two weeks to protest G4S’s refusal to give them a raise for the past six years, prompting the BWU to threaten a general strike.