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Hotel union demonstration
Roy Colebrooke, president of the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union, must take immediate steps to put a stop to the bull-in-the-China-shop approach being used by Lionel Morley, the union's Grand Bahama-based second vice president, in dealing with union "disputes" in Grand Bahama.
Surely, Morely could not have had the backing of the union's national office for a demonstration he led outside the offices of the law firm of Dupuch and Turnquest in the Chancery House building on The Mall demanding that laid-off workers of the Taino Beach Resort get their jobs back. Morley's reason for targeting the law firm, as he explained to the media, was that Dupuch and Turnquerst "are the executor of the Taino Beach Resort."
"All of the bad advice and instruction that have been given thus far has come through Turnquest and Dupuch," Morley claimed. "We find it difficult to accept that in the midst of an industrial unrest that they would make such a move that is unconstitutional and it is coming from people who should know better."
This is probably the first time in the history of trade unionism in this country that a private law firm has been targeted by a union because it did what it is retained to do: provide advice to a client. That's assuming, of course, that this was really the reason why those demonstrators paraded outside the office of Dupuch and Turnquest and not because it was a convenient target for playing the race card.
Terence Gape, Dupuch and Turnquest's senior partner in Grand Bahama, is one of the executors of the estate of the late Arnie Petersen, which owns the Taino Beach Resort. Gape happens to be white, and more likely than not this fact was the reason for the ridiculous inscription on one of the placards that read: "The Days of the UBP and the Spirit is Alive and Well in 2007/08."
It was also probably the reason that Morley made this nonsensical statement: "Are we going to continue to allow the poor man of this country to be ostracized and victimized by people who believe that they have the right to manipulate and frustrate the working class of this country the poor man?"
Sowing seeds of racism is not the sort of thing that is needed in Grand Bahama at this time, as the island stands poised to recover from three years of economic stagnation induced by the closure of the Royal Oasis Resort and Casino in 2004. This sort of irresponsible behaviour most certainly sends the wrong message to the new owners of the Royal Oasis, who are about to invest some $400 million dollars into its redevelopment, as well as other investors in the hotel sector who may be planning to come to Grand Bahama.
Ironically, former employees of the Royal Oasis were treated quite unfairly by the union when they became unemployed after the closure of the resort. Many of them found themselves in dire economic straits, but the union declined to offer them any meaningful financial assistance, even though they had dutifully paid their $10 weekly dues to the union over the years.
It is quite obvious that the hotel union is now flexing its muscle to position itself to once again be a powerbroker at the Royal Oasis when it reopens. With an unreasonable person like Morley calling the shots, union members should be careful that they do not allow themselves to be used as pawns by their leaders, who like to use the threat of a strike to intimidate employers, as Morley did on Tuesday during the demonstration outside the offices of Dupuch and Turnquest.
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Publicity month period, the Office of General Administration of Taxation briefing will be compiled and distributed through the 2004 National Tax on publicity activities album, publishing propaganda taxes on activities throughout the dynamic, experience, understand and master publicity activities around the tax situation in launching. Tax authorities at all levels to promote the exchange of information on tax initiative, timely information to the Office reported. It is necessary to strengthen the tax system and external, especially the news media of communication, published in the media at all levels in the tax system revenue propaganda activities. Second, we supervision. Office will be timely organize inspection groups to understand the various parts, inspection, supervision and taxation propaganda activities. Third, it is timely summing up.
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