CTUSAB: Open door to BWU

The door remains open for the Barbados Workers’ Union to be part of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) delegation to the 102nd International Labour Organization (ILO) conference in Geneva next June.
CTUSAB president Cedric Murrell said earlier today that while he was disappointed at the BWU’s reaction to secede from the umbrella congress over a perceived “snivelling attempt” to prevent it from further representing Barbados at the ILO, “no door is closed”.
He said it was “regretful” that CTUSAB’s decision to send one advisor from BWU, another from the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) and CTUSAB’s general secretary Dennis Depeiza as delegateS did not find favour with all of its affiliates, particularly the BWU.
“We’re disappointed that stance would have been taken,” he said in response to the split announced by BWU general secretary Sir Roy Trotman last Friday.
“That stance was not discussed with the congress in a manner that, if there was a way to bridge any gap, that this could have been done.”
However, as far as CTUSAB was concerned, the BWU remained “as much an ally as they were before, and we hope that that [difficulty] will be fully smoothed over in very short order”. (RJ)
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