{"id":10777,"date":"2011-08-04T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10777"},"modified":"2011-08-04T08:24:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:24:45","slug":"unrealistic-union-terms-not-good-for-business-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/unrealistic-union-terms-not-good-for-business-survival","title":{"rendered":"Unrealistic Union Terms Not Good For Business Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is &#8220;no need&#8221; for Bahamian trade unions to seek unrealistic wages and employment terms from their employers, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) president arguing that &#8220;survival of the business&#8221; was paramount.<\/p>\n<p>Obie Ferguson, who is also an attorney specialising in labour-related matters, told Tribune Business that the Bahamas ought to follow the UK&#8217;s lead and split the business community into different &#8220;categories&#8221; when it came to dealing with issues such as minimum wage and pension plan increases.<\/p>\n<p>This, he argued, would split the private sector into businesses who could absorb a rise in, say, the minimum wage to $210 per week, as the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) is suggesting, and those that could not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trades Union Congress (TUC) president stated that &#8220;survival of the business&#8221; is paramount and Bahamian trade unions need not push for unrealistic wages and employment terms from their employers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,68],"class_list":["post-10777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}