Unions suck the life out of any business. If you don't like your job, go get another. Don't tell me there aren't any jobs because I know plenty businesses that cannot find any decent employees willing to work up to expectation. If you don't like management, why work for them? I can guarantee now, your boss doesn't like you in the union so much either. Peace out to all the former KFC employees. I could name a couple other smaller businesses that have shut down because of union pressures as well, but for the love of the people who lost their businesses, I will let it RIP. Newsflash: only YOU can save your JOB - people almost always get themselves fired.

Unions are just a protective barrier for otherwise useless employees. If you are doing your job to the best of your ability, you don't need a union to cover your asp. If you are a lazy so and so...the union is right up your alley!!

That's probably generally true...but there are exceptions. I personally know a very hard working young man in the service industry who works for what I think is a nightmare employer. He works 14hours a day, has the most beautiful attitude you could ask for in an employee, all of the customers love him and his service to them, but his employer treats him like crap. I would say some of the treatment is illegal..but he needs his job., he doesn't have much of a formal education so is somewhat stuck. In a case like that a union is useful...but we do have too many lazy, kleptomaniacs who hide behind the threat to strike and give legitimate complaints a bad rap

what is the problem?? we do not need any hotels open at this time of the year, our business levels are the highest in the summer, besides who cares if the international press see's us closing down properties and inconveniencing tourist, there are more where they come from, everybody will come to the Bahamas and we will all prosper under the guidance of our union leaders (A PEEK INSIDE THE MIND OF MOST UNION LEADERS AND UNION FOLLOWERS WHO ALWAYS HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO SURVIVE WHILE THE WORKERS SUFFER)

Always follow the union..................to the poor house

Maybe they wanted to start a family...like normal people. People at the lower end of the pay scale can be good parents too...I can imagine though that it would be very hard for them to carry out their duties while pregnant, I don't know how the hotel deals with that

Never worry...when we are homeless and penniless and have no employers who want to hire us...the Lord shall provide...and if not, we can just rob and kill people who are against us.

While we can be critical of the tactics of unions, we must bear in mind who the employer is in question.

Could it be possible that the employer is trying to treat Bahamian employees in the same fashion that they are treating their other Caribbean employees??????????

Remember that a Jamaican owns Sandals........... Jamaican dollar is 100 to USD1.00

Just sayin..............................

Golden Rule: If you are going to pick a fight, make sure the odds are in your favour. Sandals employees might very well have a valid grievance, I don't know. However, they have to understand that they are not in a strong position. There are thousands of Bahamians that would jump at the chance of a job at Sandals. A strike might very well cost them their jobs and so they should think long and hard about their next step.

Yep, and Sandals cant fire Obie Ferguson. LOL

I hope Sandals employees know that before they let Obie take them down that road.

Rock.........worker.............Hard Place(Sandals)

This is the sad state of affairs for Bahamian low-skilled hotel workers today

Then coming soon!!!!!!!!!!!!....................................... BAHAMAR????????????

Bet the Chinese pay more LOL