{"id":33888,"date":"2013-04-03T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33888"},"modified":"2013-04-03T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:02:07","slug":"bec-union-cries-victimisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/bec-union-cries-victimisation","title":{"rendered":"BEC Union Cries &#8216;Victimisation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33889\" title=\"leslie-miller\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/leslie-miller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/leslie-miller.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/leslie-miller-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>More than 100 BEC workers walked off the job yesterday after a union executive was suspended and another employee was terminated \u201cwithout cause\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The workers gathered at the Bahamas Electricity Corporation\u2019s headquarters on Baillou Hill Road demanding the Prime Minister fire BEC Chairman Leslie Miller and immediately reinstate the fired employee.<\/p>\n<p>Urban Smith, Vice President of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union, said the corporation fired the woman, an employee for 17 years, without a valid reason.<\/p>\n<p>He also claims the suspended employee, who is also an executive in the union, was being victimised for exercising his freedom of speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 BEC employees walked off the job yesterday in support of a union executive who was suspended and another employee who had been terminated \u201cwithout cause\u201d.<\/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":[90,210,144],"class_list":["post-33888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-bec","tag-employees","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33888","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=33888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}