THE BARBADOS Workers’ Union (BWU) will get justice, but not joy, when the Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) settles its most pressing case.
“Even if the tribunal rules in favour of the [laid-off National Conservation Commission (NCC)] workers, which we are confident it will, there is still no joy to be taken from it,” BWU assistant general secretary Dwaine Paul told reporters yesterday.
The union could not be happy about the case because “at the end of the day, we still have 200 persons who are not employed”, he explained.
Paul made the remarks after a near two-hour meeting with about 100 present and former NCC employees at the union’s Harmony Hall, St Michael complex in the morning, briefing them about issues, including referral of the case to the ERT.
BWU officials say they triggered the referral process, which was to be finalised yesterday with the Labour Department, handing the matter over to the tribunal that was set up under the Employment Rights Act, which came into force on April 15, 2013.
