GENERAL SECRETARY of the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) Toni Moore is very much against the privatisation of state corporations in Barbados.
Moore is also on the side of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), when it comes to opposing the recent decision to sub contract private waste haulers to help in the collection of garbage across Barbados.
Speaking during a press conference at the BWU’s Solidarity House headquarters earlier today, Moore said she was very disappointed Government’s decision to start the sub-contracting of garbage collection had been done in the absence of any discussion with any of the country’s two major unions.
The Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) has a partnership with some waste haulers to collect garbage in St Lucy, St Peter, St Philip and St John, leaving the SSA fleet to concentrate on the other seven parishes.
“The BWU is compelled to add its voice in support of the NUPW, lest its silence is misinterpreted as support for some variant position,” Moore told reporters.
“The BWU has always denounced efforts to privatise, or if you rather, outsource public services to private companies, advancing the view that such moves shift focus from the common and intrinsic good to profit.
“However, wherever such decisions may appear logical or even inevitable, there is something fundamentally wrong if they are implemented without discussion, and where consultation is only a superficial afterthought,” the Union boss said.
Moore also advised the Barbadian public to be wary of Greeks bearing gifts, and noted if last week’s move of garbage collection was anything to go by, then the same might be around the corner for other state services. (BA)
