Radio stations yesterday carried reports stating Rayside workers had downed tools over the weekend, frustrated over a number of unresolved problems with their employers.

"There was absolutely no truth to those reports," Mendez told the DAILY NATION. "Work is going on as normal."

He said both parties were in the process of negotiating with the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) on an agreement for weekly staff.

According to Mendez, workers were on the job all weekend and yesterday, and finished just before 6 p.m. Sunday. Rayside has between 50 and 75 workers on the project on a daily basis.

Officials of the BWU and Rayside are to meet at the Labour Department today in their continued efforts to reach a bargaining agreement
for the weekly paid staff.

"As far as we know, no workers are on strike," the BWU's senior Assistant General Secretary, Levere Richards, said yesterday.

". . . But we are involved in negotiations with Rayside, and we know the workers' concerns, which we are dealing with," he added. (BA)