Bridgetown.
Hundreds of workers of the Barbados Light & Power Company, (BL&P) voted yesterday to strike today to show their impatience with the management with the country's only power supplier.
A source told Trakker News that the workers are upset by the delaying tactics being used the new owners Emera, to negotiate a new collective wages agreement with the Barbados Workers' Union.(BWU).
The source said that at the last meeting between the workers and BL&P on May 17, the company indicated that they were not prepared to negotiate a wages settlement before a audit was conducted..
Among those expected to be stay away from work today are electricians, linesmen, mechanics and the operational staff of the generation plants.
BL&P are in the middle of its centenary celebrations, several chief executive officers of the Caribbean Electric Utility Service Corporation are currently in Barbados for the event.
