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“How come there is silence about the dust up between Roslyn Smith and Akani Mc Dowell both of the NUPW? Oh to be a fly on the wall during meetings of the NUPW leadership”.

–Sargeant

Hogging the newsfeed this weekend is the news General Secretary of the NUPW Roslyn Smith is threatening to sue President of the NUPW Akanni McDowall. As the popular saying goes, you cant make this stuff up!

At a time workers in Barbados are most vulnerable the largest National Union of Public Workers is embroiled in a public disagreement between its two most visible and senior officers. A union with almost 100% membership from the public sector.

Public sector workers are most vulnerable with government’s BERT program about to take full effect, it seems a dereliction of NUPW’s mandate that it has allowed itself to become embroiled in a public disagreement between two senior officers.

It will be interesting to observe if the Executive Council will take action. To observers a sensible action to take would be to vote to suspend the two officers until the matter is resolved. It represents a distraction to the important job the union has ahead.

The blogmaster recommends that members of the NUPW resign from the NUPW and join Unity Workers Union headed by Senator Caswell Franklyn – email address if they want their rights to be properly represented.

 

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146 responses to “NUPW Members Should Join Caswell Franklyn’s Unity Workers Union”

  1. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Akanni & Roslyn are reaping the rewards of their wicked deeds !

    It was only in March 2018 that they were up and down Barbados cussing the Freundel Stuart administration ……while they conspired with the BLP to sell out the NUPW membership for horse prattle……as offered by Mia Mottley , at the time !

    Oh how the wicked…….have turned on themselves !

    While David BU…….was their chief cook and bottle – washer !!!

  2. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    Firstly,although the public squabling does not look good both Mr Mcdowall and Ms Smith did what was in the country’s interest by helping to remove the in my view clueless DLP from office.Fractured they are no different to the previous leaders of the union who were in bed with the DLP.Therefore both you and Mariposa can be quiet as nothing you all say will revive the Dems in under 20 years in my view.Fractured got the shock of his life on May 18th last year when his revered party and leader suffered a devastating redwash and he has been reduced from a pitbull to a poodle poor fellow, go look at your Pegassus tapes and worry about Mr Dottin.Where has T Inniss disappeared t?

  3. Barbados Underground Whistleblower Avatar
    Barbados Underground Whistleblower

    I just don’t know what this Hal Austin has done to you lot, had he been writing shit like Lexicon while living abroad he’d be ok in all of your books. You lot are just intimidated by Mr. Austin, I know what I’m talking about. I live in Barbados now, see this shit all too often.
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    I agree Hal is a good man with his heart in the right place. Don’t let narrow minded locals distract because they can’t see beyond their crab in the barrel mentality.

    Unfortunately Barbados has gone over the cliff.

    This current Government assisted by the main Unions whose leaders typically Bajan fashion are all about themselves whilst fattening their pockets.

    Barbados is not a place for any National looking to return home unless looking to be fleeced as the island is the wild wild west with the Laws and Structure in place for the few who are well connected.

  4. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    barbados whistleblower

    barbados is currently being run by an ignorant dictator who does not have a clue

    she is running in like the shell scHocked Uton Dowe when Stackpole wash his tail in licks at sabina park

    she is running in like a wayward fast bowler spraying the ball over the place

    Barbados has gone over ALL ITS cliffS

    BRIDGETOWN BRIDES ARE BROKEN DOWN LIKE IN THE LIKKLE DITTY WE USED TO SING AS CHILDREN.

  5. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    It’s good to see that the union is now dismantling itself. This will allow Prime Minister Mottley to finally tackle the necessary reforms in the public sector, which have so far only been partially implemented.

    These include lowering and simplifying salaries, raising the retirement age to 75 and lowering pensions for the sake of the common good. Also: The more privatization, the better. I very much welcome the outsourcing of the state printing office and other measures for a “fasting cure” in the public sector.

    After decades in sleep mode, it is now the task of the premium minister to kiss the ugly frog called “public service” awake like a princess. Perhaps the public service turns into a prince. Who knows?

    The premium minister must now remain steadfast and must not let herself be influenced by the whining of the late risers in the public service. 53 years of permanent leave at the taxpayer’s expense is enough.

  6. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @Tron March 9, 2019 5:22 PM “for the sake of the common good.”

    Whose common good?

  7. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @Tron March 9, 2019 5:22 PM “raising the retirement age to 75.”

    Tron boy. You understand that you can’t get blood out of a stone, right? You know that the life expectancy of a Bajan man is 73?

    The last time I checked those duppies in Westbury and other Cemeteries are real, real, real unproductive.

    But maybe you can arm yourself with a cat ‘o nine tails and try to beat another 2 years of work out of them.

    Good luck!

  8. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @Lorenzo March 9, 2019 1:52 PM “Where has T Inniss disappeared to?

    I dunno.

    I was wondering if the probation office suspended his internet privileges?

  9. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife March 9, 2019 5:33 PM

    Simon for President!!! :)))

  10. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @peterlawrencethompson March 9, 2019 1:15 PM I have had no trouble with my transition to life back in Barbados…everything just carried on as normal when I came back 42 years later.

    Good for you. I suspect that your heart was always in the right place. 😉

  11. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    My oh my !

    Another murder in Barbados – March 9 , 2019.

    That brings the total to 8 murders , since Darwin Dottin was brought back to ” public life ” ( to stop the violent crime ) by this bungling government.

    Stop the ROTTIN ‘

    Fire Darwin DOTTIN !

  12. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @peterlawrencethompson March 9, 2019 1:15 PM “I have had no trouble with my transition to life back in Barbados… but that might be because I suffered from “reverse culture shock” even before I left in 1975.”

    Maybe so.

    And now instead of bare talk, you are striving to fix some of the wrongs.

  13. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife March 9, 2019 5:33 PM

    Seriously, I was thinking of some kind of voodoo spell to revive the bodies.

    For activities of a mechanical nature, where no intellectual abilities are required, that’s enough.

  14. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    eriously, I was thinking of some kind of voodoo spell to revive the bodies. For activities of a mechanical nature, where no intellectual abilities are required, that’s enough.

  15. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @Fractured BLP March 9, 2019 5:45 PM “Another murder in Barbados – March 9 , 2019.
    That brings the total to 8 murders , since Darwin Dottin was brought back to ” public life”

    So Dottin kill somebody?

    Stupssseee!!!

    One of my relatives was murdered during the Stuart administration. I had nothing at all to do with Stuart, the Commissioner of Police, nor the DLP.

    It was mostly abandonment of the toddler boy by his father, and his excess consumption of rum as an adult in an attempt to self medicate away his childhood loss.

    You political idiots really need to stop politisizing everything,

    Especially you need to stop politicizing other people’s loss.

  16. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    Shameless yard fowls.

  17. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    Dear Tron:

    Since the dead, since duppies have NO NEEDS. On whose behalf would the dead, the duppies be working?

    Ya mean ya so greedy, that not only do you want the sweat of the living, but now you also want the sweat of the dead?

    Will you ever be satisfied?

    I know exactly the spell to use, but i won’t be sharing it with you. I am waiting until you are dead. I will use it on you then, so that you will never rest.

    In my family we live until we are 100+

    I am waiting.

  18. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Wuhlaus! Wuk till yuh dead!

    Where are the grandchildren going to work if the grandmas and grandpas have the jobs?

    You do realize that grandmas and grandpas who are not working serve a vital child minding purpose???? They often still contribute to society through charity work as well..

    My lord!

  19. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    If I still needed a union, Caswell would surely be my guy!

  20. Fractured BLP Avatar
    Fractured BLP

    Fire Dottin !

    Fire Dottin !

    Let Sir Simple President……revoke his appointment !

  21. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    Now that Cow Williams has gotten Apes Hill SOLD…..will the Mottley government be recouping the hundreds of millions he dipped his hand in NIS Pension Fund with his scams with the help of useless ministers and the shitehound Robinson and others…..will that money be returned to the Pension Fund.

    An international company bought the property….the NIS is owed hundreds of millions…let’s see if Mia pursues this or comes up with more bullshit excuse why pensioners money should not be returned to them.

  22. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @Greene March 9, 2019 1:02 PM “SS, coming back to Bim often enuff prior to moving back finally would bring you up to reality quickly,”

    I lived here for decades.

    Then I lived over there for for more than a decade.

    I’ve lived here again for more decades.

    I am old. Lolll!!!

    And enormously resilient.

    I used to interview migrants. One of the things we looked for was resilience.

  23. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Donna

    Thanks for the vote of confidence.

  24. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    Tron is not too bright, so he may not realise that young people are able do productive work precisely because grannies provide unpaid labour during school vacations, before school and between 3 when school closes and the time that the parents get home from work.

    One of these years we grandmas will withdraw our unpaid labour for a whole year and really phuck up your capitalist expectations.

  25. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife March 9, 2019 6:46 PM

    In case you haven’t noticed:

    The retirement age is currently being raised worldwide. And that’s a good thing. Age ennobles people, it is not a burden but a blessing of wisdom. Old people compensate for a lack of speed with their great experience and dignity.

    If it were actually the case that old people take young people’s jobs away: Then why not retire at the age of 40?

    At the US Supreme Court the judges also work until they drop dead. I think this work ethic is really exemplary.

  26. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    One of these days we granmas will withdraw our free labour for a whole year, and really phuck up your capitalist assumptions.

  27. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    I checked, and the only country that I found with a higher retirement age than Barbados is Libya, where the retirement age is 70. Greece, Iceland, Israel, and Italy have retirement ages of 67 also, although in Israel women can retire at 62. In Libya the male life expectancy id 69, so I am not quite sure how they get the final year of work out of the Libyan duppies.

    You might want to pop over there and ask them.

    And you need not come back. Maybe while there the Libyans can Gaddafi you.

  28. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    On FB Barbados
    Trump is #45, what number is Mia?

    Just waiting for someone to suggest that we stop celebrating Nov 30 and celebrate July 4, instead.

  29. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Thank you for your hint from the database for socialist idleness.

    Then just Libya. Sounds pretty good.

    With a retirement age of 75 for lazy civil servants, Barbados could take the lead in the world for once. That would be something.

  30. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    We should celebrate October 1st every year: the Prime Minister’s birthday.

    Thank the Lord for Mia Mottley: the first politician in Barbados to reduce the debt!

  31. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @TheOGazerts March 9, 2019 8:22 PM “On FB Barbados Trump is #45, what number is Mia?”

    Number 8

  32. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    @TheOGazerts March 9, 2019 8:22 PM “celebrate July 4, instead.”

    We can’t you know.

    July 4th 1776 meant nothing to the enslaved black people in America.

    The lazy white Americans still had to drag another 89 years of free labour out of the black people.

    Don’t understand why those white people could not do their own work.

    They were lazy just like Tron.

  33. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Oh God! Another crazy! Minibus men logic in the house!

    Tron March 9, 2019 7:07 PM

    f it were actually the case that old people take young people’s jobs away: Then why not retire at the age of 40?

  34. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    There is plenty human trafficking and modern day slavery in Libya since the US of A killed Gaddafi. As usual they made matters worse. Send Tron there. Good idea SS!

  35. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Caswell,

    You have earned it.

  36. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ Donna March 9, 2019 9:14 PM

    I like ZR and the book “The Art of Being Right” 😉 Since when is the use of an “argumentum ad absurdum” (or should I say, “abusum”) forbidden on BU???

  37. Dame Bajans Avatar
    Dame Bajans

    @Tron,
    There is no retirement age in Canada. You can work until you drop or retire as early as you like. I retired at 57 at the height of my earning power. Never looked back, no regrets. Have travelled everywhere I wanted to go, while I still had my faculties and my legs. I would advise anyone who can afford to, to retire early. You will find that you have more money after retirement than when you were working. At least, it seems so to me. I pay more taxes now than when I worked. It has been one helluva 15 years.

  38. Robert Goren Avatar
    Robert Goren

    “You lot are just intimidated by Mr. Austin, I know what I’m talking about. I live in Barbados now, see this shit all too often.”

    @ whitehill

    Are you trying to tell me that you have the God given right to insult and be downright disrespectful to people, calling them appallingly ignorant, unintelligent, silly, fools and they learnt by rote simply because you live overseas, you don’t agree with what they write; and because they expressed concern at your behaviour, they are intimidated by you?

    Or we should IGNORE or ACCEPT your behaviour because from time to time you may make a good contribution to BU?

    What rubbish.

    The same way Austin believes he has the right to continually bash people and tell them what is on his mind, they have the RIGHT to reciprocate.

    I agree that sometimes he makes good contributions, but this does not take away from the fact that he just a common, obnoxious bully from the Ivy who believes he’s the smartest guy in the room and constantly tries to prove it.

  39. whiteHill Avatar
    whiteHill

    Mr. Goren, we don’t support each other, we are constantly cutting each other to pieces, we are our worst enemies; what the hell that makes us? I’ll tell you, appallingly ignorant and unintelligent silly fools. Now, I have included myself in that lot and I have lived overseas as well. Does it makes you feel better that a returning national has included himself amongst the knuckle heads? Now go to fuck to sleep and do try to get over yourself.

  40. whiteHill Avatar
    whiteHill

    @ Goren, at that time of the morning my cell signaled I had an incoming, believing it was Simple Simon wanting to come over I got erect in bed; you and your bull shit. I think you have some crush on that gentleman.

  41. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Barbados is swimming in hot doo people are suffering because of govt policies
    The crime rate continues to spiral out of control.
    Here we got a bunch of low life bucket crabs pulling each other down arguing over an individual constitutional right to Freedom of speech
    Hal Austin is one of the few intellectuals on BU and is not a new bie
    He has submitted many articles on variuos subjects on BU
    For those who are new to BU and unaware they should check the BU archives
    Over the years i have seen the vile and unwarranted attacks Hal has received on BU and have often wondered if these attacks are rooted in jealous rants and raves

  42. Robert Goren Avatar
    Robert Goren

    Unwarranted attacks and jealousy my foot. What is there about him to be jealous of? Because he may have submitted many articles on various subjects to BU does not give him some God given right to be disrespectful and abusive to other contributors.

    That’s my point. His obnoxious disrespectful behaviour over shadows any good contributions he makes.

    Whitehill, you should take you head out of his pooch and wash off the bullshit you’re smelling.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    Further comments will be deleted. It gets to a point where enough is enough.

  44. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Nothing wrong with such a technique, Tron. I often use it myself although I must confess it was instinctive not learnt through Greek philosophy. Taking an argument to the extreme of its reach often reveals its absurdity. But not in this case. Because this about finding the right balance with limited opportunities.

    Unless the presence and experience of the older folks is going to create new jobs for the younger ones or unless the younger ones become better at creating jobs for themselves I don’t see how working to the age of seventy-five is going to help the situation. You may be looking at saving on pensions.and adding to the well being of older folks who still can work But I am looking at the cost of having so many idle youths. Already unemployment is already high among the youth. I shudder to think of what will happen if that increases any further. The well being of the youth is also very important.

    Necessity in Barbados does not always seem to be the mother of invention. Unless it is the invention of another criminal gang or enterprise.

  45. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Correction – this is about finding

  46. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Simple Simon,

    There is no retirement age in the UK. But if employers want to fire you they still can. They are ways round it.

  47. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    Unions in B’dos have sold out their members with nothing to show for it. At least in the past political association by union leaders brought some benefit (circa Arthur, Adams, Barrow). Lord help us.

    Up and on Bro. Caswell.

    Observing

  48. Lorenzo Avatar
    Lorenzo

    David BU you have the patience of Job and i commend you.Imagine persons like the know all Hal Austin and Mariposa coming on your site and insulting you.If it was me i would ban their ass let them start their own blog which would never be in the same class as yours. This know all Mr Austin condemning Ms Mottley and calling Barbados a failed state but bigging up Mr Thompson as bright saying he would have become a good PM because he interacted with people.He cannot remember Mr Thompson being involved with with dodgy dealings with Clico seems to suffer with convenient memory.Therefore with Mr Austin’s judgement of persons we can dismiss him in my view as delusional.As for Mariposa she is just a Dem j/a.

  49. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    Barbados is a failed state unable to pay its bills
    A denial of a truth hell bent on some blp yardfowls who proceeds to the prolonging of political bile absent and refusing to acknoweldge all the red flags of social deprivation and economic stravation that has shown up on barbados doorsteps

  50. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    Lorenzo,

    so you are saying that MAM has never been involved in dodgy dealings?

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