The ongoing dispute between the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), its protesting workers and the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) is heading for a showdown with the Minister of Labour tomorrow.
The sides will engage in crunch talks at CBC headquarters in the Pine to hopefully resolve the impasse which has seen workers, now supported by their Barbados Water Authority (BWA) counterparts, striking for increments promised to them by their employers.
BWU general secretary Toni Moore promised the protest would continue until that meeting was actually held.
She warned that not only would the union not be accepting anything other than CBC’s agreement to pay increments to all workers, but if the meeting did not go the union’s way, strike action would escalate. (AD)
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