Workers at the main Post Office building on West Hill Street walked off the job and went on strike yesterday, claiming that working consitions in the buiding are “unbearable”<\/p>\n
What’s more “unbearable” is that it takes two weeks for a letter to get from downtown to an offcie on West Bay Street.<\/p>\n
In all fairness, however, the air-conditioning in the building has been on the fritz for months.<\/p>\n
Employees had been working only until 2:30pm as it would get too hot in the building to work in there after that time.<\/p>\n
But now, with cooler weather, management decided that the conditions were acceptable for the workers to stay and do their jobs.<\/p>\n
Apparently the minister and the permanent secretary visited the area Tuesday, and as far as they are concerned, it was cool enough for workers to stay until 5:00pm.<\/p>\n
Some of the workers do not like that idea.\u00a0 They prefer to work until 2:30pm… who wouldn’t?<\/p>\n
Predictably, Bahamas Public Service Union (BPSU) President John Pinder threw his support behind the workers.<\/p>\n
“I am not going to encourage them to be in there for eight hours until that system is repaired,” Pinder said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, it is not understood how the air-conditioning in such an important government building can be broken for so long.<\/p>\n
That’s not the only problem in the building either.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the week, Ministry of Public Works employees were brought in to address the water supply problem. As a result, employees in the Office of the Attorney General were allowed to leave early, as well as those in the Ministry of Labour and Social Development.<\/p>\n
Another problem is the mold in the building, a health hazard for anyone working there.<\/p>\n
Post Office employees have been putting up with poor working conditions for a long time.<\/p>\n
Government needs to fix the problems in the building and get these employees back to work.<\/p>\n
Then, they need to “downsize” the postal operation and get rid of slack employees so Bahamians can get their mail in a timely manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Postal workers went on strike yesterday, claiming working conditions are “unbearable”. Maybe the public should go on strike from paying these people whose efficiency has been “unbearable” for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[12],"tags":[72,40],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-employment","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}