{"id":36331,"date":"2013-06-03T10:18:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T14:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=36331"},"modified":"2013-06-03T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T14:18:19","slug":"strike-action-by-sandals-workers-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/strike-action-by-sandals-workers-approved","title":{"rendered":"Strike Action By Sandals Workers Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/strike-action-by-sandals-workers-approved-36331.html\/sandals-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36332\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36332\" title=\"sandals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sandals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sandals.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sandals-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sandals-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Strike action by workers at Sandals Royal Bahamian resort has been approved.<\/p>\n<p>Trade Union Congress president Obie Ferguson confirmed he received a strike certificate following the vote by resort employees. Mr Ferguson, also a labour attorney and lead negotiator for the Bahamas Hotel, Maintenance and Allied Workers Union, said: \u201cWe are now in possession of the strike certificate, clearing the way now for a strike. They (Sandals) just refuse to negotiate. It\u2019s been quite frankly about six years form 2006 to 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the vote for a strike, earlier this month, there was one spoiled vote but no one voted against. There were 266 valid \u2018yes\u2019 votes.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent statement, Sandals said it challenges not only the validity, but the number of votes the union said it polled in the strike vote.<\/p>\n<p>Sandals said there was no oversight of the polling exercise by Ministry of Labour personnel; it wasn\u2019t conducted fairly, and workers had apparently been \u2018coerced.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Dana Smith<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Tribune Staff Reporter<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune242.com\/news\/2013\/jun\/01\/strike-action-workers-approved\/\" target=\"_blank\">Original News Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade Union Congress president Obie Ferguson confirmed that he received a strike certificate following the vote by resort employees.<\/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":[418,1742,144],"class_list":["post-36331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-sandals","tag-strike","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36331","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=36331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}