Bridgetown.
"Get serious", that is the message from the deputy general secretary of the Barbados Workers' Union, Robert (Bobby )Morris, to the management of the Barbados National Bank BNB).
His response followed a Press release issue by the bank over its staff''s two hour walk out yesterday at all locations acrross the island.
The release stated that the BNB was disapointed at the workers action calling it unneccessary and premature after having just three meetings with the union with a view of arriving at a new collective agreement.
Morris said that it is not a matter about how many meetings held with the union, but the quality of the meetings that been conducted so far.
"It is not a about three or four sessions, it is about the quality of meetings that had been conducted so far. It is about the quality of the negotiations and about the movement", Morris stated.
According to a source, among the major concern of the BNB staff was the ten percent increase in salary over a three year period other banks agreed to with the BWU. The source revealed that to date the BNB has offered only two percent.
