Submitted by Anthony Davis
The Barbados Light & Power Company Limited (BL&P) has been warned that it will not be allowed to send home workers before discussing the matter with the Social Partnership. Any attempt to do so will be met with strong resistance from the combined forces of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) and Ministry of Labour, the union’s General Secretary Toni Moore cautioned today – Barbados Today
I sincerely hope that this is not another empty threat by one of the trade unions in this country. Recently they are better known for their bark rather than their bite, as they have not represented their constituents to the best of their abilities because they were sleeping too soundly in their beds with this Government.
I take umbrage at the behaviour of the head of the BL&P when she states that it is either layoffs or a rate hike. Is she a member of the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) that she can make such an audacious statement?
In other words, does she have any say whatsoever in whether that company would be granted a rate hike?
What is the FTC’s take on that statement?
Why is the FTC’s silence so deafening on this matter?
I do not like the condescending tone of the head of Emera, because it seems to me that she thinks that Barbados is some banana republic! It is not even a republic yet – far less a banana one. Barbados is a sovereign and independent state, and if she does not like the laws of this country then she knows what she can do!
There are enough flights out of Barbados – she can even take a cruise to her destination – but we should not tolerate such an aloof stance from the powers that be at the BL&P.
It must be made abundantly clear to Emera that there is no getting around involving the unions and the Ministry of Labour.
“We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.” – William Reece Smith, Jr.
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