THE HEAT IS ABOUT to be turned up under management of Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA).
After being pressured by airport workers last March to abandon efforts to get a disputed 3.5 per cent pay increase from GAIA and instead submit fresh proposals for a new collective agreement, the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) has now given management a deadline to come to the negotiating table.
According to correspondence from the NUPW to chief executive officer of GAIA, David Barrow, NUPW general secretary Roslyn Smith said the union wanted talks resumed by Thursday, stressing that they were growing increasingly impatient with the company whose lone shareholder was the Government of Barbados.
“In response to your request that the meeting be prolonged for another month, the union is proposing that the meeting be held on or before October 20, 2016. . . (GE)
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