PRIME MINISTER Freundel Stuart has hinted at a possible legislative response to what he described as “choke and rob” industrial relations in the current industrial dispute involving the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW).
Stuart complained there was a departure from the acceptable practices of negotiation in the current dispute between the NUPW and the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC), but he reminded there was a section of the Constitution which gave him certain legislative powers.
“You don’t have to go through processes anymore . . . . What you do is to use bluster, bullying and to use blackmail,” the Prime Minister told journalists on the sidelines of a national consultation on housing and sustainable development at Accra Beach Hotel.
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