DEPUTY CHAIRMAN of United Commercial Autoworks Limited (UCAL) Hilford Murrell stepped in yesterday to avert strike action by UCAL workers over the dismissal of one of their colleagues on Friday.
Murrell, who held a meeting with John Jones, the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) workers’ representative and the fired shift foreman Richard Newton, told SUNDAY SUN he had intervened to head off a stoppage at the Transport Board’s mechanics service provider.
“I saw in the paper the possibility of a strike taking place and I tried to call Jones together to avert a strike because at this period of time the buses will be required for the schoolchildren,” Murrell said yesterday. (JS)
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