Comments on: Cabinet Office Meets With BPSU & BIU

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:12:41 +0000

Nobody can guarantee that you wont be made redundant! This is a serious recession and no body can be protected unionized or not unionized. If the man can’t afford to give you a pay check it means he has to make you redundant-government or no goverment – no body can be guaranteed that!

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:11:02 +0000

I dont think people are paying attention…if these unionized people go on strike off and on during the summer of discontent then not only will they be hurting locals and the visitors who rely on transportation but they will also be hurting themselves and their families as when you go on strike you loose a days pay. How will that solve anything?

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:55:29 +0000

What I love most is how we are now getting professional bloggers here. Pump it out kids!

By: SSS

SSS — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:13:03 +0000

Do you think that the CEO’s (bosses) of all the other companies in Bermuda are taking a pay cut before they lay off some of their employees ???!! This whole thing by the BPSU to is rediculous. Its a reccession and the ministers are the ones working to help get us out of it especially the Premier! She took huge cuts else where to help out Bermuda! You people just love negative news and love to hear bad things about the government! Take your pay cut and count your self lucky you still have a job!! As of some of us out here lost ours a long time ago and are STILL looking for one! Inconsiderate !

By: rubber bong

rubber bong — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 03:17:22 +0000

no they wouldn’t get back pay as a freeze would be the settlement reached for Oct 2010-Oct 2011.

By: our future

our future — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:36:36 +0000

First I was to say please don’t take this as negative, I’m not commenting to say either side is wrong. I just want to say that in the royal gazette “Ms Cox said she emailed the Bermuda Public Services Union (BPSU) on Friday morning to ask if the march on Cabinet could take place on Monday instead of Tuesday. Ok that’s fine but Friday morning was a public holiday, supervisors were prepared for Tuesday, Blackberries are not issued to all staff to be made aware that on Monday morning the premier is available to meet. Asking the union to switch without sufficient notice to supervisors who had to man the offices while their staff went to march would have been worse than the union who gave a weeks notice of their intent to march. whether or not we think the union is right, the same way we get public notice to say road closed for road repairs and you know in advance to detour was no different from us being made aware govt offices would have been working with skeleton crew on tuesday. I do have a question about the freeze. if biu/bpsu accept freeze does that mean IF times get better the workers will get back pay for the time they had a freeze, same way the police got years backpay for working without a contract. If anyone can answer thanks.

By: Rockfish#2

Rockfish#2 — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:20:30 +0000

I suspect this is a harbinger of a pending controversial decision, sort of firing a warning shot!

By: Hmmmmm

Hmmmmm — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:53:08 +0000

Talk about media savvy. Four days after this meeting we get this ? The media has moved on from this story and so have the people. Now we get this release to resurrect it ? How many more press people does this Administration require to respond to something in a timely manner. Standard line these days: “no-one in Government responded to numerous queries on this issue”.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:32:16 +0000

Looks like they had a very nice family reunion