More BWU, BWA talks

THE Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) is again hoping to sit down with the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) very soon.

 

This time around, according to BWU General Secretary, Toni Moore, it is in relation to a matter that BWA’s management had put on the back burner for some time, which relates to a strategy for cost-savings.

 

“This was a proposal that had been put by the Barbados Workers’ Union to the management of the Barbados Water Authority, and it sits with them for over three years now with no response,” Moore told reporters while at the BWA Pine Headquarters, yesterday.

 

“This proposal of ours related to how the Barbados Workers’ Union through our workers here at Water Authority can contribute to reducing cost of overtime and so on,” she explained, also indicating that although this matter has been discussed at the level of the Prime Minister, who has responsibility for civil service – there has been no positive response from the Water Authority.

 

“Our proposal was against a backdrop that we wanted to maintain job security at the BWA and so our compromises were along this vein. So hopefully we will get to those discussions so that we can start to recoup some of what had to be paid out in backpay to workers.” (TL)