Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Union members protest signing with shouts and banging

Click to read storyMembers of the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union screamed and banged on the door during the signing of a new five-year agreement with the Bahamas Hotel Employers Association.

Fist Vice President Kirk Wilson and others were escorted by security from the Department of Labour Monday after protesting that the contract was illegal.

Wilson said the union’s executive board had rejected the agreement and that union president Roy Colebrook had not right to sign.

Labour Director Herbert Brown said such complaints should be presented to the Industrial Tribunal since, at that stage of the process, the Labour Department is only serving as a witness.

Despite the protests, the agreement was signed as planned.

- Guardian

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