The Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) is willing to take to the streets to support the Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU) in its campaign to have Alexandra School principal Jeff Broomes removed and protest against the personnel administration Division of the Civil Service.
Sir Roy Trotman, general secretary of the BWU, said yesterday that the political leaders also had to make a decision as to how long they would allow “the chasm” between management and staff at the school to remain.
Sir Roy said the BWU was aware that there “have been festering problems at Alexandra going back several years” and that advisers to Broomes had rejected an offer of mediation from himself and Denis Depeiza, general secretary of Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) at the last minute.
“These problems are now made even worse. My solemn judgement is that the relationship is fractured beyond repair.”
Sir Roy said the BWU was pledging to the BSTU “our full support”.
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