Service Interruptions Due To BIU Meeting
Due to a BIU meeting being held at 10.30am tomorrow [June 12] there “will be a disruption of several government services,” including bus service, ferry service, a “minor disruption to garbage collection in the central parishes,” mail delivery and more.
A Government spokesperson said, “The public is advised that due to a Bermuda Industrial Union [BIU] meeting being held tomorrow [June 12] at 10.30 a.m. there will be a disruption of several government services.
“The meeting is anticipated to last for around two hours and is being held to ratify a Collective Bargaining Agreement.
“Affected services include:
- “Department of Public Transportation – bus service interruption from 10.00 am – 1.00 pm and ferry service interruption from 9.00 am – 1.00 pm.
- “The Ministry of Public Works: Minor disruption to garbage collection in the central parishes.
- “Ministry of Home Affairs: Dog Wardens.
- “Ministry of Education: Custodians and Store personnel and Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy bus drivers and crossing guards.
- “The Bermuda Post Office [BPO]: Mail delivery – however efforts are being made to minimize the effect to the public as much as possible.”
lol the real bda gov is holding a meeting.
BDA is a joke.
Get over it, you had 400 years of Dictatorship.
Hahaha.
You can’t even count to 400.
Racist scumbag comment
LMAO!
You’ve clearly never experienced a real dictatorship first hand.
Looks like you’ll be enjoying another 400 years of it.
Onion Juice.
As an observation you are one sick SOB.
You do this to divide.
Well done.
Enjoy a lifetime in hell.
Shalom.
My people have been living in hell for 400 years, now we have REDEMPTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And we are taking FULL advantage of it.
GET OVER IT.
So disrupting services is getting “back”? Christ you’re an idiot.
By ‘redemption’ you mean ‘vindictive revenge with no justification’. Got it.
How’s that working out for you?
You seem pretty hate-filled. Is that the part you are taking “FULL advantage of”? Sounds like a great life.
“GET OVER IT” you say? Done. Been over it.
You are boring.
If the PLP and BIU are redemption, you’re welcome to it.
If you think Bermuda is hell, please feel free to move elsewhere.
Thank you.
you are a real part of the problem , if you have that as an answer …the blind continue to lead the blind …you would buy Northrock if they offerd it as a prime location for a beach resort – you believe anything that piblup oops biuplp put out …
Sad.
More re-writing of history . LOL
That’s the best you got OnionJuice. Race card has been played way to many times my friend.
Well We have 400 years worth to use up.
There you go again. Rewriting history.
Are you a victim yet? That’s what makes you happy isn’t it.
LOL…you sound like Zaney ranting in the House. Has anyone seen OJ and Zane in the same room at the same time??
I think we should be told.
You have enough for everyone.
Question for Onion Juice, if they had a meeting on Saturday,Sunday or a public holiday.. Who would show up? If they are soooo committed to the walk that they talk!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ouchie
And “you” have had 20 years of what, exactly?
Shut De Island Down!!! LMFAO
Good grief.
Just a normal Bermuda week. Time for a disruption to paying taxes.
Ringmaster,I and others agree we should all ban together and not pay our taxes, Enough is enough already.
I would second that, this is getting ridiculous.
Minor disruption to garbage collection in the central parishes? How will we know the difference?
Bus service interruption? So, normal then.
Mail interruption? So, just pretend it’s raining.
About to say the same thing, especially about the trash collection!
“..The meeting is anticipated to last for around two hours and is being held to ratify a Collective Bargaining Agreement…”
Why don’t they allow voting by proxy to avoid interruptions of service? Or mail in votes…oh wait…the mail service sucks. LOL
No buses (again) ferry service disruptions,garbage pick up,and the list goes on….and we the people suffer…
I have always said that the B.I.U.run this Island,and the people be damned.
Time for a snap election people, and the sooner the better.
They’re really going to disrupt the Dame Marjory Bean Hope Academy?
That is an awful thing to do. It’s no wonder nobody has any respect for these people.
Oh great an extra day before heroes
Are we open for business Bermuda or not? Very single Bermudian in the hospitality industry with this action!! So sefish!
And you complain about taxis ha
Why not Friday they could have had a long weekend
Are we taxpayers paying for workers wages while they attend all these meetings?
A former Premier said about Bermudians if they complained about anything,(this to shall pass) and guess what we complain about no bus service or trash pick up and everything else that we have to deal with… and we still pay for taxes !!!!!!!!!!!!
100% of YOU people enjoy the benefits the BIU fought for outlined in the CBA. Those of us attending the meeting are tax payers too. So go ahead and not pay your tax and get your azz in jail. Better yet,if you’re so uncomfortable about what’s going on, leave. Wage negotiation talks will benefit you dummies too. Carry on with your negative comments. smfh
I don’t get 6 weeks vacation. I don’t get 70 days sick leave a year. I don’t get to carry forward unused sick leave. I don’t get to stop work for a bs union meeting to ratify an agreement, The BIU doesn’t do sh3t for me or most people. You’re selfish and lazy in your guaranteed jobs. You wonder why no one respects you.
But you get a lunch hour, vacation, sick pay, maternity leave, perternity leave.
Everything I get is freely available to everyone in my kind of job in every civilized western country with a free-market system. I get plenty of benefits which are not available to workers in communist countries.
Workers in communist countries end up starving in poverty.
You should move to one, you would enjoy the experience.
No one is knocking union workers desire for better wages
We 100% support you
It’s just …do we have to put brakes on already poor public transport
AGAIN
Do you enjoy watching moms and students and others standing at stops waiting for buses that never come as you pass on way to your meeting?
We are all over the rat plague now and just deal when trash not collected…but the public bus situation, prisons, teachers, enough is enough!
Go talk to the plp MPs who are union friends and get what you want that way instead of shutting down bda every time you all got to meet
Why do they all need to be “out” for the negotiations?
As a Government employee you do not pay tax, you refund part of the tax that is paid by the private sector to pay you.
So, what does this collective bargaining agreement say about work stoppages?
Does it give the BIU members the ability to have “meetings” whenever they like and disrupt service to the public?
You see, we all know that the BIU ignores ANY CBA when they feel they have been wronged in some way. So, having a meeting to agree a CBA that the members will ignore at will is ironic, to say the least.
Enjoy your little “get together” and knuckle touch time.
Now we can’t even get a one day trash pick-up. I’m going to dump my trash on the steps of the Cabinet building.
Why 4 hours off for a 2 hour meeting (9 until 1pm) then have to take a lunch hour?? They always do it when we have an abundance of tourists here just to disrupt everyone. Our visitors go back with a sour taste in their mouth for sure.
The meeting is to “ratify a Collective Bargaining Agreement”. That means the BIU negotiating team has already agreed the terms and this meeting is to get the general membership to approve.
I would have thought that such approval could be given by e-mail without a meeting.
They just want more money for less working hours.
OJ
Because all of them suffered already 400 years