Union upset over NCC no-show

Disrespect!
That is how National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) president Walter Maloney described yesterday’s last-minute no show by the general manager of the National Conservation Commission (NCC) as labour talks geared towards solving an impasse between that entity and Barbados’ two major labour unions representing severed workers got nowhere.
But while the NUPW is stepping up its industrial action, the delegation from the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) has asked for an investigation into why no other representative took NCC boss Keith Neblett’s place. They added that they were willing to let due process reign.
Maloney, who spoke to reporters after a more than two-hour session involving the BWU delegation and Labour Minister Dr Esther Byer Suckoo, said union officials were informed of Neblett’s inability to attend the meeting only at the start of the proceedings.
“The NCC was supposed to collate information that we agreed on and give it to the minister. What we got from the minister was that the information that was given was the said information they had given her before. What we had agreed upon was not given to her,” Maloney said.
Stressing that he wished Neblett good health, Maloney however noted that the union had difficulties with the lack of information.