this is what happens when foolish people follow the union bosses who live in lyford cay and lead them down the path of destruction. Times are hard and people need jobs, protesting because they didnt get a raise with trucks made them lose their jobs. Blame the union not the hhotel

Leslie needs to "carry his ass". Tell him go pay BEC, BOB and all the other entities that he owes. He makes me sick!

I think Leslie Miller is a horrible excuse for a human being most of the time, but I actually agree with him on this one!

Unions have become corrupt and greedy and do not do their members any favours with their big mouths, ignorant manners and thuggish tactics. They have no one to blame but themselves. While the union is running to court while running its mouth, perhaps the laid off employees might consider going to court and suing the union for putting them in this mess.

And while we're talking smack about "foreigners" running our country, let's take a good hard look at ourselves. How many jobs do Bahamians provide for Bahamians? Soon there will be no foreign businesses left to blame as we make it increasingly hostile to conduct business in the Bahamas just so we can be big shot entitled Bahamians. Then what will we have? Nothing. Not a damn thing.

this is the Bahamas, stop making sense or "carry your ass."

Some one in the PLP needs to tell this man to keep his trap shut!!

As much as I detest collective bargaining and have no taste for civil disorder, Sandals also carry some responsibility here also. The workers established a union in a legal manner, recognized by the Labor Department. It's obvious to everyone that Sandals didn't want a union in its work place. I own a company and rightfully so, I don't want one in my company but once the law to established one was followed then I will concede to workers' legal right for representation. Sandals most likely will have to concede or pay for wrongful dismissal.

Phew. . .I was beginning to think that nobody saw the full import of sandals childish practices! How that she refused to comply with laws of this nation. . .doing as she dang well please in the face of even our Supreme Court rulings. . .plus having them charged before the court for union busting tactics. . . now they want to close down to get rid of workers they don't want. . .and made the most dumbest move by making their places redundant. . .places they can't refill again. . .according to law! THEY WILL PAY. . .THEIR BEHAVIOUR IS JUST TOO BLANTANT FOR THEM TO NOT PAY. . .VERY SLOPPY DEALINGS THAT WILL COST THEM PLENTY IN COURT AND WITH EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS!

CYFA king man.... Our very own Donald Trump lol.

Comrades! It's time to put Sandals actions under the hard evidence forensic microscope of what the realistic expectations should be for the public to believe what is coming out Sandals headquarters, the ministry of labour and the tourism ministry?
I am saying that long before the Pot cake Leslie, called out for the PLP Cabinet to back Sandals and to tell workers to carry their asses, the public shouldn’t have expected to experince a form of magic journalism to dig deep to uncover the truth, even when the hard facts are quite visible. But what more to expect when newly recruited journalists are being told on hiring day that your reporting strengths is not to dig deep for the hidden facts that can lead to what the people in the story don’t want the public to know, and your only job is to gather and report as stenographers as in the art of note taking news-reporting secretaries.
I mean how deep would the dig have to be to see why the whole truth is not being told to the workers, or the public?

I'm not a fan of Potcake, but I think that he has it right this time. The trucks were the last straw. And the funny part was that they weren't road-legal! How smart are you to drive a truck and park it on the carriageway and not have a proper licence, insurance or documentation. Who are these mental midgets?

Agree on news-reporting secretaries. Then again, in this country, it pays not to 'vestigate too deep. You keep ending up at the same place, and it een healthy.

Comrade Banker, I am no fan of unions but you have ask if they're still not an necessary evil. Still even with their union membership cards in pocket a foreigner may have just gotten away with overnight canceling the paycheques to 600 of his native workers and hundreds if not thousands of workers family members dependent on those paycheques?
As a banker you now something about where forensics can lead an investigation and I have no doubt there was a problem brewing at the Cable Beach's property long before them dump trucks appeared on the scenes, insured or not didn't make a difference.
If their past perforances hold true, I sure as hell wouldn't want workers to hold their breaths waiting for Crown Ministers Obadiah and Shane to go seeking the true motivation that lead to 600 workers paycheques having been canceled on them and their family members.
In fact I think the government had to have had advance documented communications in their files about a pending shutdown of all business at the resort?

I have absolutely no doubt that there was some union-busting going on. Unequivocally. Without a doubt. Was it justified? Who knows. There were signs that the Nassau operation wasn't meeting their KPI's (Key Performance Indicators). There were street whispers that profitability had taken a downturn.

Unfortunately, both for unions and for the company, the workers are mere pawns. And they are the ones that have a real life outside a balance sheet with kids to feed, cars to keep up, mortgages to pay. I understand that, and it is heartbreaking to me, how we as Bahamians were NOT GIVEN A CHANCE to pursue the dream of financial democracy and independence. Our independence was supposed to guarantee that. Instead, the old UBP Stafford Sands economic model was continued, because quite frankly, our first independence government didn't have a clue about anything. Look at what Loftus Roker did to education.

It's the poor and common people who always suffer. But unions today are not the answer. There has not been a single case that I can recall where unions have mitigated an economic disaster for the common folk. Look at Tiger's employees from City Markets -- my aunt used to cook there for their lunch food. If you audited the unions, would you find a large strike fund? No. What will you find? Bloated salaries for Obie and his henchman.

Nobody, including the unions and government gives jack sh*t for the ordinary Bahamian. Their NIB old age pension fund is unfunded by over a billion dollars due to government spending. The economy is monolithic with no upward mobility. The poor people. Education and exit are the only ways for a vast majority of Bahamians to live a decent, financially fulfilled life like the vast number of North American inhabitants. There are no Bahamian patriots, just the Trumpian kind who lie and sing hosannas of the PLP criminals.

Most of the union members made redundant are just too stupid to realize that Christie uses Miller to redirect or deflect political fall out of any kind away from himself. Christie makes sure Miller is paid handsomely each month from the Public Treasury for saying profoundly daft things at the right time in order to get Christie off the hook for the political heat associated with just about anything. Christie is known to often tell Miller to get out there and take the heat for him by stirring things up with his usual antics and outrageous but silly public comments. Christie has said many time: "Miller ain't just any 'ole mangy flea infested pot cake - he's my pot cake! And when I unleash him to draw plenty attention to himself and away from me by barking loudly, he does just that, for me. Man, you gotta know I love my loyal loud barking pot cake and I make sure he gets fed well!"

Re-post: What all of those redundant workers and union leaders haven't been told yet is that the Sandals Cable Beach property has been losing money for years now and will most likely not be re-opening. The property is probably worth more as a condominium development and no doubt certain of the political elite will press to partner with the new owner/developer. Of course Christie's son is likely be appointed exclusive real estate agent/broker for the selling of the new condo units to wealthy foreigners. Who knows, Christie's new found Chinese friends may even be the new owners of the property and possibly involved in its renovation/construction. It seems Gordon "Butch" Stewart and his son Adam have cast their eyes towards a new Sandals development in Cuba. No, no, no, no....please say all of dis it ain't so!

This is obviously a house cleaning exercise where sandals is attempting to get rid of the 'troublemakers' and other persons they feel do not fit in to their business model. These are lean economic times and all businesses are finding themselves in difficult economic times. Many local businesses are experiencing sales declines by as much as 40%. And overhead including taxes have escalated. But Sandals, by their own admission, is expected to have a better than average Fall/Winter Season. This is a two sided coin where it is always unfortunate when any worker loses their job, but also business owners who take great risks have to do what they feel is in the best interest of the company to ensure the company continues to survive.

Good article to educate yourself why it is important to let foreigners into your country...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor…

the PLP screwed up with the permits for their dolphin island so this was the inevitable next step.

Comrades! Since Dolphin Island has been mentioned, why have both the PLP and Red Movement regimes signed over some 17 - 20 islands for foreigner owned hotels and cruise lines to use exclusively for their own guests? Not only do they supply all they need to entertain, feed and pleasure their private islands guests directly from their own hotels and cruise ships but no native visitors to these islands are welcomed. And did you know when the days events are over , they pack up everything not nailed down be be taken with them back to their own hotels and cruise ships?
Comrades, whats government allowed to be going on over at Cabbage Beach, Paradise Island - is not some beach rights isolated case.
Soon all beaches and islands will be government classified to be "off limits" to the natives.
I hear the going price for these 17-20 private islands being signed over to the foreigners were a whopping $1 fee payable to taxpayers?

This is almost a similar event that took place some years here in Freeport. I still remember that morning in 2005. A major strike was going on between the hotel owner Mr. Buddermyer and his staff. The cry was he didnt pay national insurance for the workers and some other accusations. I worked that morning, crowd control. The workers block the entrance to both sides of the international Bazaar and the business in the Bazaar complained that their customer couldn't get in the Bazaar. The maids surround several cars that was blocking the way into the Bazaar preventing the wrecker driver from moving them. The Bazaar had nothing to do with the hotel property, but the Chant was still "Buddymyer gat ta go!!" led by the union. They pumped up the people. Well months later hurricane Wilma passed by destroying the hotel. Buddymyer didn't bother to fix it, but left town citing it was to much to fix it. To this day it was never fix, It is still an eye sore now, along with the Towers. The people believed the union was God I guess, but it was a private hotel. We have this attitude that once we in a union we straight, but the union didn't put a dime in the man hotel, or the workers for that matter. When recession came in 2008-2009 many of our residence left here to look for work in other islands... simply because the hotel closed. Another situation years ago was the Container Port, they tried to force the hand of the company top get a union. The fella shut down for several days, soon Perry Christie was here begging for them to reopen, I have mixed emotions when a matter like Sandals occur. Maybe we need to start owing our own things then we will understand what it means to "Run my company".

This election is looking more and more like a coin toss...