{"id":6686,"date":"2011-02-28T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2011-02-28T09:41:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:41:58","slug":"local-blogger-hits-out-at-sandals-bahamas-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/02\/local-blogger-hits-out-at-sandals-bahamas-owner","title":{"rendered":"Local Blogger Hits Out At Sandals Bahamas Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the headline &#8220;Exploitation, Victimization and Terror Rocks at Sandals Bahamas operations?&#8221;, a local blogger has taken umbrage at the working conditions and anti-union stance at one of the Bahamas&#8217; leading tourist destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that Sandals owner and management &#8220;will go to the ends of the earth to exploit, victimize and terrify its employees,&#8221; the controversial blogger says that there is a &#8220;high pitch of fear among workers at Sandals today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pro-union, pro-PLP blogger appears to have a particular disdain for foreign managers, saying that the expats insult and intimidate Bahamian employees.<\/p>\n<p>While it is true that there are no unions at Sandals Bahamas, most employees seem to be quite happy with their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what most people would interpret as another typically Bahamian anti-foreigner rant, a local Bahamian blogger assails the character of Sandal&#8217;s owner Butch Stewart.<\/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":[14],"tags":[72,33,68],"class_list":["post-6686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-employment","tag-tourism","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686","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=6686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}