BWU still involved in Social Partnership

THE Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) is still with the Social Partnership.

 

Seeking to clear up any misconceptions, General Secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union Toni Moore assured those gathered at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre for Monday’s meeting that while the BWU had “missed some meetings”, it was still very much a part of the social partnership.

 

She maintained that the social partnership offered all the consummate benefits of identifying issues of strategic importance to all.

 

“Social partnership allows us to step back from ourselves and unravel the critical challenges with which the country as a whole is being confronted and to develop solutions that would drive the kind of results being sought after. In discussing the pros and cons of the proposed solutions to each, there is both theoretical and practical logic that should inform the optimal solutions,” she insisted.

 

Addressing the full room which included Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and members of his Cabinet, representatives of the private sector and the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados, she noted that the agenda had not set much time to drill down to the core of the issues up for discussion “in a manner that would clarify for us more than on a superficial level, the next steps following this exercise”.

 

“By the same token, contrary to the immediate defences that may come to mind, our interest is not to have the partners engaged in spineless and incessant debate. It is therefore our hope that the intention is for the thoughts and ideas revealed during the exchange today on the deep and in-depth and very important issues which would be introduced, we hope that this will inspire the work of the subcommittee and the efficiency of the working groups that have been established in the subcommittee in a manner that would bear fruit to the time spent here today,” Moore insisted. (JMB)