Unions tell Mitchell government…. Retroactive payments in cash and not bonds
Although the Keith Mitchell-led administration and two public sector unions are now closer to reaching agreement on the 4% increase in salaries, one sticking issue...
Technical & Allied Workers Union (TAWU)
Teachers reject 4% in bonds
Teachers in Grenada have rejected a government offer to settle their protracted dispute over non-payment of salary increases from end of January through the issue...
Mason: “If they touch one they touch all”
President of the Commercial & Industrial Workers Union (CIWU), George Mason has called on workers to turn out in large numbers to Labour Day celebrations...
March outside PM home in St Mark might have sparked the detention of GUT president
It is now emerging that the police crackdown over the weekend on the President of the Grenada Union of Teachers (GUT), Jude Bartholomew was linked...
GUT leader Jude Bartholomew: “I will not be intimidated”
Those were the words used by newly elected President of the Grenada Union of Teachers (GUT), Jude Bartholomew minutes after he walked out of the...
PM Mitchell hijacks $10 million from NIS
Trade union leaders have told their membership that the Keith Mitchell-led New National Party (NNP) government had staged a virtual “hijack” of the funds belonging...
TUC launches major attack on NNP regime
General Secretary of the Grenada Trades Union Council (GTUC), Bert Patterson has launched a scathing attack on the Keith Mitchell-led New National Party (NNP) government,...
TUC: National Insurance now on “the back burner”
The Grenada Trade Union Council (GTUC) has accused the Keith Mitchell-led government in St. George’s of not being serious with the National Health Insurance (NHI)...
Spice Inn worker speaks out on their plight
The words used by an angry and irritated employee of the world renowned Spice Island Beach Resort (SIBR) in the wake of the failure of...
Andall speaks on the separate 4% battle
Outgoing President of the Grenada Union of Teachers (GUT), Marvin Andall has brushed aside suggestions that the 4% battle by public officers against the Keith...
Hotel worker wants impasse between TAWU and Spice to be settled
A distraught worker at Spice Island Beach Resort (SIBR) wants to see the Technical & Allied Workers Union (TAWU) and Management of the hotel reach...
Denial from Spice Island Beach Resort
THE NEW TODAY has seen the copy of a letter from the General Manager of Spice Island Beach Resort (SIBR), Brian Hardy which is at...
TAWU not prepared to accept changes to Severance Payment regime
Labour representative in the Upper House of Parliament, Senator Andre Lewis has disagreed with suggestions made by a top female hotelier on the island that...
Call for government to address severance pay in pandemic
One of the island’s top female hotel managers has called on the Keith Mitchell-led New National Party (NNP) government to relook the issue of severance...
PWU and TAWU meeting on 4% issue
The leaders of the Public Workers Union (PWU) and the Technical & Allied Workers Union (TAWU) will be meeting with their Executive members this week...
Spice Inn workers still without severance pay
The management at one of Grenada’s most known hotels is being accused of seeking to divide workers over the issue of severance pay, months after...
Strike at Gravel & Concrete
Workers at the Gravel and Concrete Corporation are off the job for a second day as the company keeps them in limbo over year-end bonuses...
Trade unionist denies pension claim made by PM Mitchell
A leading trade union official on the island has categorically denied claims made by Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell at a public forum involving members...
Stolen engine at Gravel and Concrete
General Manager of the state-run Gravel Concrete & Emulsion Production Corporation, Willie Hercules has denied reports circulating on the island that an employee who stole...
Workers at Spice vote against management proposal
Workers at Spice Island Beach Resort (SIBR) who are out of employment with the award winning hotel for the next year, have voted against a...