{"id":9345,"date":"2011-06-10T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2011-06-10T08:59:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:59:51","slug":"sandals-threatened-by-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/06\/sandals-threatened-by-union","title":{"rendered":"Sandals Threatened by Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial action could take place  at Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort if the Department of Labour does not  address almost 150 trade disputes dating back to 2006, president of the  Trade Union Congress (TUC) Obie Ferguson warned yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson said the Privy Council\u2019s ruling, which found the Bahamas  Hotel Maintenance and Allied Workers Union (BHMAWU) to be a legitimate  union that has had credence since 2001, should have prompted the  Ministry of Labour to expedite hearings on the trade disputes.<\/p>\n<p>However, he lamented yesterday that since the ruling was handed down  in February, the Ministry of Labour has done nothing to begin the  process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial action could take place at Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort if the Department of Labour does not address almost 150 trade disputes dating back to 2006.<\/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":[12],"tags":[33,68],"class_list":["post-9345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-tourism","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345","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=9345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}