CLOSED FOR BUSINESS.
This may be the situation in Barbados for a few hours tomorrow morning if the national strike called by the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) is fully supported by public sector workers along with other organisations.
Every department in central Government, plus workers in all of the statutory corporations have been called on to meet in Queen’s Park, at 8:30 a.m. from where they will march with placards throughout Bridgetown for the reinstatement of 13 Barbados Investment and Development Corporation employees over the age of 60 who were recently dismissed.
Already the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) has called on their membership to turn out in support of their NUPW colleagues. The BWU executive council will meet today at 4 p.m. to discuss the extent to which they will lend support to the strike… (SP)
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