Hopes for an end to the impasse between striking nurses and Government by Christmas have been dashed. Head of the Unity Workers’ Union, Senator Caswell Franklyn, the man who has led the three-week-long industrial action, told the Sunday Sun that plans for an intermediary to broker a peace have fallen through. Franklyn said a meeting was scheduled for 9.30 a.m. on Christmas Eve, but half an hour before the scheduled …
There has been no deal between Government and Unity Workers’ Union to end the more than two-week nurses’ strike. General secretary Senator Caswell Franklyn said yesterday no one had not reached out to his union. “There has been no official word from Government about anything,” he told the MIDWEEK NATION. On Monday, Franklyn said the strike would end once the deal Government proposed that day with the Barbados Nurses’ Association …
Far from backing down, nurses who are staging industrial action will be ramping up their efforts, says Head of the Unity Workers’ Union (UWU), Senator Caswell Franklyn. Additionally, they have sought legal advice, saying money was deducted after it was already lodged in their bank accounts, and some of those whose salaries were docked, had not been paid by Government for several months. Nurses have been on strike protesting poor …
Leader of Government Business in the House of Assembly, Santia Bradshaw, yesterday strongly condemned the strike action being taken by nurses who are part of the Unity Workers’ Union led by Senator Caswell Franklyn. Speaking before the Lower Chamber went on its Christmas break, Bradshaw, who is also Minister of Education, called on political leaders to do the right thing. Pointing out that this was the season of sharing, caring …
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