{"id":18313,"date":"2012-02-22T09:57:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18313"},"modified":"2012-02-22T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T14:57:56","slug":"kfc-closes-stores-due-to-unreasonable-union-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/02\/kfc-closes-stores-due-to-unreasonable-union-action","title":{"rendered":"KFC Closes Stores Due To Unreasonable Union Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18314\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18314\" title=\"kfc-sign\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kfc-sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kfc-sign.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kfc-sign-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KFC patrons were greeted with this sign at the Thompson Boulevard locations early yesterday afternoon due to industrial action taken by its employees. Edward Russell III \/ TNG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KFC locations across New Providence were closed after unionized employees were offered an ultimatum by franchise owner Restaurants Bahamas Limited (RBL): Agree to reduced wages and benefits or leave the company.<\/p>\n<p>RBL also rejected the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU) as the bargaining agent for approximately 120 workers in its nine outlets, and shut those locations down after KFC employees staged sit-down protests \u2014 allegedly sanctioned by the union \u2014 in the stores.<\/p>\n<p>The move sent union leaders into emergency talks with Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes, as scores of KFC workers waited outside the minister\u2019s East Hill Street office.<\/p>\n<p>RBL issued a statement after the closures explaining why it had no choice other than to \u201ctemporarily close its stores until further notice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company made numerous efforts to get the union to appreciate its financial position and that, to remain viable, the company must adjust its employee benefits package to be in line with the norms of the sector in which it operates,\u201d said KFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFC made numerous efforts to get the union to appreciate its financial position but was forced to lock its doors when negotiations produced no meaningful movement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[153,210,68],"class_list":["post-18313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-employees","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}