The government has until today to respond to the Bahamas Public Service Union’s concerns regarding the Gaming Board, or the union will shut down the casino industry in the Bahamas.<\/P><\/p>\n
John Pinder, president of the B-PSU, led Gaming Board employees in a protest after negotiations for a new industrial agreement reached a stalemate last week.<\/P><\/p>\n
He told The Tribune yesterday that if government does not respond, “We will pull all of our inspectors out of the casinos – and without the inspectors, the casinos cannot function.”<\/P><\/p>\n
According to Mr Pinder the government had proposed a $.6 million contract over a five-year period for the 100 Gaming Board employees stationed in New Providence, Grand Bahama and Exuma.<\/P><\/p>\n
However, Mr Pinder said that Gaming Board employees wanted the government to grant them a similar contract to the one agreed for ZNS employees, who will get a $3,500 lump sum payment over a three-year period.<\/P><\/p>\n
Mr Pinder claimed that this was not a lot of money considering that the Ruffin Group and the Isle of Capri allegedly owed government millions of dollars m back taxes.<\/P><\/p>\n
He claimed that if the government collected the owed money, it would be easy for them to pay employees their increases without having to dip into the public treasury.<\/P><\/p>\n
Yesterday, Mr Pinder said that he has had no feedback since last week’s protest. “I was supposed to hear from them today (Monday) but I haven’t. I expect to hear from them in short order and if not we will just do what we have to do.”<\/P><\/p>\n
By CARA BRENNEN, Tribune Staff Reporter<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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