{"id":244453,"date":"2003-11-21T12:21:05","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T17:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/11\/hotel-strike-would-gamble-with-our-future"},"modified":"2003-11-21T12:21:05","modified_gmt":"2003-11-21T17:21:05","slug":"hotel-strike-would-gamble-with-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/11\/hotel-strike-would-gamble-with-our-future","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Strike Would &#8216;Gamble With Our Future&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This statement was made by the vice-president of the Bahamas Hotel Employers Association, Michael Reckley.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe association issued a statement yesterday in response to claims by the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union president Pat Bain that Sun International employees were ready and willing to enforce a strike vote should negotiations between the union and the employees reach a stalemate.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Reckley said, &#8220;Hotel occupancy for the vast majority of hotels is down, room rates are falling, profitability is nearly non-existent and the Bahamas is losing precious market share.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;He said that at the same time costs are rising, competition is growing and shortened work weeks are increasing.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHe said if the hotel sector cannot produce adequate financial returns and attract new investments, the problems all of us face will worsen.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;It is hard to follow the union&#8217;s logic that a work strike will somewhere provide relief to employees and provide a long-term remedy to our dangerous predicament.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Reckley noted that the association had always presented a thorough and reasonable package for employees.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Cara Brennen, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strike by the BHCAAWU would cause serious and immediate damage to an already struggling economy and would gamble with the future of all Bahamians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244453","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}