{"id":244559,"date":"2003-12-05T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/12\/union-votes-to-strike"},"modified":"2003-12-05T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T17:26:14","slug":"union-votes-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/12\/union-votes-to-strike","title":{"rendered":"Union Votes To Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This means that 17.5% of the union&#8217;s bargaining unit have taken a strike vote against the 11 hotels represented by the BHEA. The BHCAWU can now authorise legal strike action at any time.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe officers and members say they have been left with no other alternatives than to conduct a strike vote against the Association. The union said that its entire 6,052 membership throughout the country was involved in the vote.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nShortly after 10am yesterday union president Pat Bain met with the press to discuss the strike vote at Worker&#8217;s House.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;The decision for a strike action is a direct result of stalled negotiations with an obstinate group of lawyers at the bargaining table,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Despite our team working around the clock to come to an agreement, negotiations have reached an all time impasse.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Arthia Nixon, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 members of the 6,052 bargaining unit of the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU) voted yesterday to strike against the Bahamas Hotel Employers Association (BHEA).<\/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-244559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244559","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=244559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}