Docks: BIU President Provides Further Updates
BIU President Chris Furbert hosted another press conference this afternoon [Aug.24] to provide clarification on recent reports on the ongoing situation at the docks.
Mr Furbert said the press conference was called as the information given is “vitally important for the public to have”, and he wants to make sure the information “gets out.” He mentioned that dock workers have given up a days pay over the past two years, and he did not see that in the media.
The full 27-minute audio of Mr Furbert’s statement is below:
On August 10th the Port Workers Division of the BIU instituted an overtime ban on the Hamilton docks. Mr Furbert said the overtime ban came after the workers were asked to reduce their working hours, and workers decided to withdraw overtime to protect their guaranteed 37.5 hour work week.
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I tolerated about 3 minutes of the babble. Anyone have a synopsys of what he said?
Blah blah blah blah, (posturing, pontificating, whining), blah blah blah.
This is a power play between bro Chris, D. Burgess and sistaa Paula.
Dear Mr. Furbert,
Please do some research on what a ratings downgrade will do to our Sovereign Debt pricing and cost of borrowing, then decide whether constant labour unrest will be ignored by our international observers and the Ratings Agencies.
Enjoy your research project, if you answer correctly you get an A+ and an invitation to Afternoon Tea with crumpets, truffles and bakewell tarts – if you start to behave an OBE, or maybe even Sir.
Work on your public speaking, not your accent just the tone and delivery it has started to sound angry and Napoleonic almost.
Your Former Fan
Research Major
c.c The Governor – “Dear Guv, please Knight this one to pacify him, he is getting impatient as all his mates are noe Dames, Sirs, MPs etc etc and he feels slightly left out”
I am getting the impression that the BIU President has very poor business sense. perhaps the fact that we as BERMUDIANS will now HAVE to work two jobs to make the normal salary is now a reality. 37 hours on regular job and 20 hours on a job currently held by an unskilled non Bermudian.
Simple mathematics:
Less jobs because economy is poor.
People getting laid off from job #1
work permit holders holding jobs that need a person who is reliable
RELIABLE people laid off
RELIABLE people need to get organised by the UNION to take these jobs and really protect the interests of the country and its workers.
strategy is what they call it
sad thing is that no one in business will deal with CF/BIU because it will be like going to a fist fight like someone is done him wrong.
look at the businesses in Bermuda –
Market Place – Asian floor managers?
Island Cuisine – Asian waitresses
Degraff’s – land of the girt big beef pie w/Asian short order cook
why you ask:
all facing the same problem – unreliable staff (not 100%) but enuff to threaten a profit margin
get the reliable workforce in these positions. the hey day is over….. Globalization has occurred people. Bermuda is not another world anymore
So here’s my impression.
This was an Elmer Fudd impersonation, punctuated every so often by ‘meaningful stares’.
But seeing that he wants ‘all the information to get out to the public’, let’s make sure we all know that they get a minimum of 5 weeks vacation, plus 14 weeks ‘sick’ leave, and the ability to carry forward up to 100 days of ‘sick’ leave to the following year. An astoundingly generous remuneration package, almost beyond belief. Most of us in the real world get 10 days max sick leave and 3 weeks vacation.