The island’s biggest trade union last night warned the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) it may have to abandon a policy of “restraint” and launch some industrial action.
Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) general secretary Sir Roy Trotman told a news conference the labour organizer did not want to sanction industrial action but “may be forced” to because of unsettled business with the BWA.
He said the union 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.
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, he said.
