And this is why I stated that the unions are killing this country. They do not act with professionalism and they like to hold other institutions hostage with these illegal actions they do and their threats of how they will shut the county down if they do not get their way.

I agree with you that they should not be allowed these "sick" outs that threaten national development.

Agree, Bahamasair after 51 years is not doing anything for national development, expect taking millions in subsidies each year and not turning a profit.

Exactly,

There are countries that do it all the time. Just like the government gives financial incentives to these foreign entities to come do business in The Bahamas, they can give it to WesternAir and other airlines to service small or far flung airports.

Corporate greed is the result of rise of cost of living?

So unions want to have a minimum amount for overtime pay, even if the person does not work the minimum hours. They want automatic increments even if the company does not may a profit? And who do you think pays for that?

I'm sorry, but our true enemies are union bosses who have never owned a business and just want to suck dry every company.

Look at this union at Bahamasair. They already got an 11.5% salary increase for an airline that has not ever ru a profit. And now they want more on that? And who pays the rising ticket prices? Surely not the union

The unions today are nothing like the unions or Sir Randol Fawkes that were really concerned with fair rights.

> “A few flight attendants didn’t get
> the memo and they were able to get
> four flights off yesterday morning to
> Exuma, Freeport, Long Island and San
> Salvador. The ones that worked the
> morning then said ‘that’s it’ and they
> were fatigued. The airline was forced
> to shut everything down. Everything
> was shut down. Unfortunate,
> unfortunate.”

I'm sorry. This has to be a joke. They fatigued so they stop working?

These unions are killing this country.

Th staff got paid what was agreed. Now they trying to be greedy. Every last one who called in needs to be fired.

These unions have messed up this country.

This airline needs to be privatized immediately!!!!

And that is based upon what law the judge should use?

While I concur with becks above, judges must act on law and not our feelings.

So we blame the police? Do we have enough police to be everywhere?

The largest community in The Bahamas, Eight Mile Rock, only has 35 police officers to cover all of West Grand Bahama. How do we expect the poice to do it all?

Even the woman in this article, talked about no one stepping into do something, and she was not even stepping in. We have lost community in this country. We would rather take a video than step in and help.

And then we wonder why our country is going to the dogs. It is time for all of us, myself included, to really be the keeper of our brothers and sisters.