{"id":5081,"date":"2010-12-10T09:06:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2010-12-10T09:06:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T14:06:33","slug":"btc-union-will-not-work-with-cw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/12\/btc-union-will-not-work-with-cw","title":{"rendered":"BTC Union Will Not Work With C&#038;W"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Stressing  that Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) employees &#8220;really don&#8217;t  want to work with Cable &amp; Wireless, no matter what&#8221;, the president  of the union representing the company&#8217;s line staff yesterday said he was  &#8220;disappointed&#8221; with the alleged lack of information from the Government  regarding the details of the pending sale.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>The  union is particularly concerned about the 30 per cent reduction in BTC  staff that has been proposed by Cable &amp; Wireless if it acquires the  51 per cent stake in the telecommunications company.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Bahamas Communications and Public Officers Union (BCPOU) president, Bernard Evans said:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>&#8220;We  honestly believe the corporation has been so successful being run by  Bahamians and its government-appointed Board of Directors deciding what  it can and can&#8217;t do. It&#8217;s been very profitable and is still trying to  keep us on the cutting edge, so we believe they should divest to  Bahamians.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/Staff-won-t-work-with-Lime-on-BTC--no-matter-what-_8224094#ixzz17iXnr4mg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the union representing BTC workers says that union members, &#8220;really don&#8217;t want to work with Cable &#038; Wireless, no matter what&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[36,43,68],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-btc","tag-telecommunications","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}