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NUPW warns
it will step up
Court action
Published on: 11/20/2009.
THE NATIONAL UNION OF PUBLIC WORKERS (NUPW) has warned of an escalation in action at the new Barbados Supreme Court Complex unless there is a satisfactory resolution to the latest dispute involving the Registration Department.
The action was not specified, but industrial relations officer Caswell Franklyn told workers yesterday: "If this matter is not resolved to the union's satisfaction, and we will give them a particular deadline, we will be calling upon you to take further action, because this is madness."
He was speaking in the wake of an incident involving a Registration Department worker, who was allegedly manhandled and injured by a Government security guard.
Franklyn claimed the guard and the others assigned to the complex were acting under instructions.
Those instructions to the security guards, he added, had not been communicated to staff.
"Having spoken to the guards, I discovered that one or two guards might get overzealous, but they are acting under strict instructions . . . instructions which have not been communicated to you, so you do not know what the guards are instructed to do.
"But when they do these things, they are not doing them to offend you; they are doing them to maintain their jobs."
Franklyn further warned the NUPW would not be tolerating any abuse of its members.
"There is not a day," he said, "that we don't get a complaint from the staff about what is transpiring down here - from the sewage that is floating back to the floor, to officers shouting at people . . . because of their temporary status and generally having the staff down here in fear.
"The union will not tolerate that kind of behaviour from anybody," he stressed.
He advised staff to document every incident, even if it meant buying a notebook.
10 comment found!
Justice : 11/20/2009
Oh Dear,
The security at the court should be police...these guards are disrespectful and over zealous. As brutus said. Slave days gone. Now we have our own bringing back this slave mentality. Powers that be, FIX this and FIX this now.
Nov/20/2009 : 11/20/2009
Legislation is needed to stop these wild -cat strikes. Workers in Barbados seems to be out of controlled. And those in charge must take the neseccary to deal with this type of behaviour. TC.
TO POLTERGEIST : 11/20/2009
I see it more as the staff and all others, including the criminally inclined, are SUBJECT to the same security procedures and policies.
Justice : 11/20/2009
So therefore the staff and persons known to the penal system are to be treated in the same manner? All I claim to know is that if security has instructions to search one's bag on entering and leaving the workplace it is only fair to let the STAFF know that bags will be search if this is generally not the norm. When I go through certain restricted areas, I know that if the scanner beeps, ID tag or not I may have to take off my shoes if asked like anyone else and place them in the tray. That is the known procedure, I still do not see a problem here excpet communicating to the staff.
To POLTERGEIST : 11/20/2009
"if I am a member of staff in any company I should know what would be likely to get me in trouble with security, to be forewarned is to be forearmed." Now replace the term "a member of staff in any company" with the term "persons known to the penal system". Are you sure you want to give advance knowledge of the security measures to the criminally inclined?
Guard Who! : 11/20/2009
Who's government are the guards working for the government of Barbados or the government of Denmark ? Who made the rules ? Who is in charge of communication?
If no one wants to hear the lowly guards why not no security at the building AT ALL or get the BDF?
Questions to ponder on .
a SIMPLE COMMON SENSE SOLUTION : 11/20/2009
This is another stage in the longstanding, unresolved feud between these too bodies. Boundaries must be quickly established and made clear before it gets more ugly. A simple common sense solution to a festering wound is all that is necessary.
There Is A Simple Solution- Communication : 11/20/2009
Well, well is all I can say. Common sense dictates that if the guards have strict instructions that the rest of the staff should be aware of them too. Any new policies relating to security should be passed on. That these instructions have not been communicated to staff members highlights a confused state of affairs at the highest level. Workers have rights and if I am a member of staff in any company I should know what would be likely to get me in trouble with security, to be forewarned is to be forearmed.
Protest halts sittings. : 11/20/2009
Is this the same guards that stops
people that`s doing business inside the
complex for not dressing according to
the dress code.There`re even assaulting
the workers.Who is responsible for making
the rules? it seems like no one knows or
what these rules are.If people are being
assaulted take them to court.The guards
in Barbados seen to think that people
have no rights even the ones at the super
markets.I have witness at one where the
guard was very disrespectful to people
enter the store.I said if you keep that
up they owner may lose the store in a
court action suit.
: 11/20/2009
Workers in Barbados are not being treated NISE. This has been a problem from SLAVERY and needs to be corrected. Many of the labour practices of employers( slave masters) and authority figures (slave drivers are based on SLAVERY) TIME IS LONG GONE TO STAMP OUT THIS CRAP. WHAT DID THE HEROES OF BARBADOS FOUGHT FOR ? NOTHING ? Things are this way because people are selfish and not looking out for their brothers . Those who have the wherewithal are not prepared to fight for justice and so no social leaders are emerging. Those going to University are of the gentler persuasion and not intersted in adventurous pursuits for the betterment of mankind.
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