Bridgetown.
General Secretary of the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) Sir Roy Trotman has warned the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) it may have to abandon a policy of “restraint” take industrial action.
Speaking at a press last night, Sir Roy said the BWU did not want to sanction industrial action but “may be forced” to because of unsettled business with the BWA.
He said the BWU had been “preaching a certain level of restraint” because of factors including the troubled state of the Barbados economy, but had been “taking flack” for this policy against the backdrop of workers expressing a high level of frustration.
According to the Sir Roy, the union had been trying to look “at the bigger picture” and had been taking a position that would cause as little dislocation as possible,” but this position could change if the BWA continued to fail to address its workers’ grouses, the veteran trade unionist said.
Among them are increments of pay dating as far back as 2006 and the role BWA will play in an Ionics financed BWI water project in which the Authority could be using private contractors to carry out the work.
