Going downhill.
That is how president of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), Walter Maloney, described the impasse between that union and the management and board of the Barbados Community College (BCC).
This after a heavy police presence greeted the top brass of the union when they tried to enter the BCC’s Eyrie, St Michael campus yesterday morning to hold a meeting that the NUPW had requested to have with its members.
“I felt like I was in a militarised zone. I have never yet seen so much policemen with guns and handcuffs keeping people out of a public place.
“We have had 70 years of representing public servants in this country, all of the fights were not pleasant . . . but at least we had total respect for each other, understanding that there was a procedure to be followed,” Maloney said.
The NUPW president, who was speaking at the union’s Dalkeith Road headquarters, said it seemed to them that the management of the BCC and by extension the board had no intention of meeting with the union in any haste to rectify the ongoing problems. (LK)
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