NASSAU, Bahamas — The recent actions of The Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU) were “unprofessional and irresponsible”, Bahamas Hotel Employers Association (BHEA) President Russell Miller said as he insisted that gratuity for hotel workers was never at stake.
“As a result of the conscious decision by the bargaining unit’s representatives to present to the public an inaccurate depiction of both the process and the contents of the industry’s counterproposal to their proposal, we are left with no choice but to respond in order to set the record straight and reset the basis for future negotiations,” Miller said at a press conference on Wednesday, June 5.
He added, “There has been a long-established process as it relates to the conduct of negotiating our industry’s agreement with the union and we will continue to honor that process. Regretfully, this has not been the case for the union, as has been demonstrated with some of the more recent events. We find such behavior to be unprofessional and quite frankly, grossly irresponsible.”
BHCAWU members overwhelmingly voted to strike last Thursday amid assertions that, in negotiating a new industrial agreement, their employers proposed to reduce gratuity amounts from 15 percent to zero in some dining areas. https://thenassauguardian.com/2019/06/06/hotel-union-actions-irresponsible-bhea-says/
