‘No water outages’

Strike action at the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) continues today but customers will not feel the effects.
The protest action at one of the island’s essential services started yesterday around 7 a.m. after a breakdown in negotiations between BWA’s management and union representatives.
However, officials are assuring that water supply throughout the island will be uninterrupted.
Senator Sir Roy Trotman, general secretary of the Barbados Workers Union (BWU), the largest and oldest trade union, said that customers will still receive service. He was speaking to the media yesterday afternoon, following meetings with BWA’s staff and other officials at union headquarters Solidarity House, Harmony Hall, St Michael.
According to Sir Roy, while workers from all areas of the authority will join in the industrial action, precautions were taken to ensure that there will not be any adverse impact on any member of the public, particularly important public services.
“We took care to ensure that all appropriate serious departments were manned but outside of that, everybody at the Water Authority is engaged and is fully involved in the struggle for the respect that we are demanding,” he said.