Workers at First Citizens Bank off the job

It’s not business usual at First Citizens’ banks across the island today.
Approximately 75 per cent of the bank’s workers are presently off the job.
They have been meeting with their bargaining agent the Barbados Workers Union (BWU) this morning.
Assistant BWU General Secretary Dwaine Paul told Barbados TODAY the workers are peeved at the bank’s failure to honour a 2016 wage profit-sharing agreement.
He could not say when workers would return to work.

Sandy Deane

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