CableVision Workers Take Industrial Action
CableVision workers have voted to take industrial action following a number of grievances. A BIU spokesperson said they have “40 odd” members at CableVision, and this decision has been made due to “long outstanding issues.”
Some of the issues include discrepancies in job duties, workers desiring performance evaluations done based on the company handbook to assist them in being able to achieve workplace advancement, and training for local workers.
The BIU also said the Company introduced policies without consultation, and alleged a case of a migrant worker working “outside his permit.” CableVision’s management have not issued a statement as of yet, however we will update as able.
Bermuda – another world……
It’s like a timewarp back to 1974 UK with all these strikes.
Wake up BIU. Before the marketing line changes to Bermuda – another strike?
Very sad.
“Migrant” worker? Can we not leave the gypsy-vegetable-picker description out of this? I dare you to call the CEO of XL a “migrant” worker….
Just another friendly “howdy do” to our non-Bermudian brethren. Send all those “migrants” home right??? That’ll learn em’!
Now where was I? Oh yes, I was just pondering why IB families are leaving….
The term migrant worker has different official meanings and connotations in different parts of the world. The United Nations’ definition is broad, including any people working outside of their home country. The term can also be used to describe someone who migrates within a country, possibly their own, in order to pursue work such as seasonal work.
So you are saying it WOULD be ok to call the CEO’s of IB “migrant” workers! You solidify my point! Thanks, but I don’t need you to substantiate my words. The term has a negative connotation and you know it! So don’t try to be daft.
Welcome IB! We will treat you like gypsy-vegetable-pickers. (We don’t want you here but please continue to spend your money on our over-priced….well, everything… and continue to keep our crime-ridden, racist, pathetic island afloat.)
lol the rest of that wikipedia article also expands on the connotations.
“In the United States, migrant worker is commonly used to describe low-wage workers performing manual labor in the agriculture field; these are often illegal immigrants who do not have valid work visas.”
Laverne I believe deep down you are not as ignorant as you would like people to believe….Migrant worker, guest worker whatever term is chosen it is used by people like you as a term of derision and that is part of the reason Bermuda is in the predicament it finds itself in today……the number of migrant workers migrating out has put Bermuda on the brink and we have not yet hit the bottom….you still have a job because you work for the union whilst many of your dues payers do not…we are undergoing a migration ourselves as Bermudians are leaving to become migrant workers…..at least those who have the opportunity to do so….the enlightened recognize that migrant workers make the island run and without them we ain’t runnin so good now…you feel me?
LaVern Furbert is correct in her definition of “Migrant Worker”, so becareful who you call ignorant, it just might be yourself to whom you refer.
Here is the definitions from: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/maii
You may search it yourself if it helps you to gain a better understanding of the various meaning.
The term migrant worker has different official meanings and connotations in different parts of the world. The United Nations’ definition is broad, including any people working outside of their home country. The term can also be used to describe someone who migrates within a country, possibly their own, in order to pursue work such as seasonal work.
Canada
In Canada, companies are beginning to recruit temporary foreign workers under Service Canada’s recent[when?] expansion of an immigration program for migrant workers.
China
Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who go to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work, hence they are the main force for urbanization in the People’s Republic of China.
European Union
The recent expansions of the European Union have provided opportunities for many people to migrate to other EU countries for work
Russia
The passport system in the Soviet Union severely restricted migrant workers but the dissolution of the Soviet Union allowed far more movement, both from the “near abroad” and within Russia.[3]
United States
Family of migrant workers in North Carolina, c. 1940s
The term foreign worker is generally used in the United States to refer to someone fitting the international (UN) definition of a migrant worker while the term migrant worker is considered someone who regularly works away from home, if they have a home at all.[4]
In the United States, migrant worker is commonly used to describe low-wage workers performing manual labor in the agriculture field; these are often illegal immigrants who do not have valid work visas.
So then if a person were to migrate from the BIU to the Senate then shortly after migrate back to the BIU and take on the job of annoying their fellow countrymen via the internet, they would be a igrant? (sorry the letter after “L” has stopped working)
Bermuda terms:
Migrant worker – low end employee
Ex-pat – middle management
For the CEO the will use his nationality. ie American CEO John Doe…
Given his recent speech I guess that makes EB a migrant worker in the Cayman Islands.
Good point there @ Truth. Yep, that’s one of the many reasons why I left well before my permit expired……
Oh please, just get on with your jobs!! If only we, the customers, could take industrial action against CV!!
Seriously such trash service and product at such high rates. Glad I got a sling box no more CV bills for me.
@SS I’m with you on that one. We paying out of our asses for cable when it works…
And if you want extra like HD its extra $ a remote extra $ good lord next you will be paying for the length of the cable to your house per foot.
I’m not surprised at all, CV have lost a number of young bermudians due to management’s mistreatment of their Bermudian staff overlooking them for promotions, promising training to local staff and not following through and trying to justify bringing in workers because the locals are not trained, well if they followed through with the training of the Bermudians they would have locals trained in some of those areas, I’m not saying they don’t need any foreign workers but management at CV needs to be overhauled period. Perhaps ‘downing tools’ may not be the right thing to do at this time but the workers may now be at their breaking point. Now just let my cable stay on!!!!!
CV should be giving us back money every Christmas instead of opening up all the movie channels (which have nothing on them anyhow). As soon as you get a little wind all the canadian channels go down. Channels with no sound, channels with no picture or distorted pictures. This is like going back to when they first started business. CV has been doing a pack to their employees for a long time. This is not the first strike and at the rate they are going, it wont be the last.
Exactly! It’s pathetic! Don’t get me started on Christmas freebies to the people who pay bare minimum a month and us who pay $206.00 per month don’t get crap!! The least they could do is give us a credit for the channels they’re giving away for free!!
Evolution of the internet is a wonderful thing! Soon cable will be a thing of the past…
Why does WOW cost so much per channel… They don’t have the cables to maintain…
Its because they are allowed to get away with it. Correct me if I’m wrong but Government who allow them to charge what ever get a percentage for Telecommunication License Fee etc.
Another illegal Wildcat strike!! The BIU hadn’t been in the news this week, it had to happen.
We certainly should not put a foreign CEO of an international business company in the same class as a foreign technician that works for Bermuda Cablevision, although both are people working outside of their home country. You need all need to take your fight up with the United Nations, not me.
As I see it, all people who come to Bermuda to work are migrant workers, because they’ve migrated from one country to the other.
When I was working at CV I had did the first installation. They had a nasty manager from Florida there who thought that an installation in Bda was just as easy as in Florida where it is all flat. They saw how long it took to do an installation so they wanted to pay us per install not per hour. So if it rained we couldn’t work and want be paid. We went on strike. While we were at the BIU negotiating they had brought in foreign installers to do the work while we were out not getting paid. This folks was from the very beginning of their existence. And as you can see they are still pulling crap…
As of today I know of one person who is still employed at CV from the beginning…
i want my intenet speed that foreign cant FIX
HIS pride IS OVERATED .> get rid of him
i would name his name but bernews delets it