PM to meet with union leader

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart will meet with officials of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) later on Tuesday as he seeks to ward off a nationwide strike that the union has announced after it failed to get the telecommunications company, Cable and Wireless (Barbados) Limited, to retract dismissal letters sent to nearly 100 workers last week. BWU General Secretary Sir Roy Trotman told reporters that he had been contacted by Prime Minister Stuart and requested a meeting following a letter he had received from Labour Minister, Dr. Esther Byer-Suckoo on the labour issue. “The plans for actions that were made, are the plans for action that were made. We have been slapped in the face by the employer class of Barbados and what we had planned to do, we will do,” Sir Roy said, adding “there will be a general strike, but there will be other stoppages too”.