LESS THAN A dozen workers of Barbados Light & Power’s Spring Garden plant staged a brief protest this morning.
Equipped with signs and placards, the workers said they were stand in solidarity with a Barbadian worker who had been allegedly kicked by a Canadian safety officer last week.
Even though an apology was forthcoming from the safety officer, tensions between the workers had not been smoothed over.
“An apology was given, but later other workers had doubts about the sincerity since the same gentleman said that if he was kicked back he would fight with any of the workers,” an unidentified worker told NATION NEWS.
Meanwhile, BL&P said the situation was one of “a misconstrued nudge between a supervisor and an employee at a recent meeting”.
“The supervisor apologised subsequent to that meeting and the employee accepted the apology. The company’s investigation showed that there was no harmful intent and none was perceived,” the company said in a statement.
Human resource manager, Gail-Ann King said that given the findings, BL&P was “disappointed that employees chose to stage protest when there is an established, agreed procedure to deal with all grievances”.
“In fact, to date we have not received notification that even the first step of the grievance process has been taken,” she said.
The utility company assured customers that it had put plans in place for the continued safe generation and delivery of power to customers. (AD/PR)
