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The Barbados Workers' Union is a national trade union in Barbados.It has 25,000 members and represents them directly, negotiating with individual companies in each sector. Its membership covers all areas of employment in Barbados: agriculture, tourism and restaurant Services, transport (road, sea and air), government and statutory boards, banking and insurance, manufacturing and industry ...
The CTUSAB has its origins in the emergence of protests against the Barbados government's acceptance of an IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programme in the early 1990s. The proposed programme included the devaluation of the Barbadian dollar , cuts to welfare, public services and public salaries, public sector job cuts, increases in taxes ...
Barbados Labour Party (Until February 2024) Ralph Thorne KC , MP is a Barbadian politician and lawyer who has served as Leader of the Opposition since 2024. He was elected in 2018 as a candidate of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) for Christ Church South on 24 May 2018. [ 1 ]
In 1994, Owen Arthur became the prime minister as leader of the Barbados Labour Party. In the 2003 elections the BLP won 23 out of the 30 seats. The number increased to 24 in 2006, when in an almost unprecedented development the leader of the opposition, after a bitter and tumultuous internal battle within his own party, resigned the post and ...
Walcott was MP between 2003 and 2008, and since 2001 was Leader of Government Business in the Senate and later served as minister of health under the tenure of Owen Arthur. Between 1995 and 1997, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Labour Party and has been its chairman as of 2021. He was also appointed a senator in 2013. [1]
Leader Leader since Leader's seat 2018 election Seats at dissolution Contested seats % Seats Barbados Labour Party: Centre-left: Social democracy Republicanism: Mia Mottley: 26 February 2013 [19] St. Michael North East 73.47 30 29 30 seats Democratic Labour Party: Centre-left: Social democracy Republicanism: Verla De Peiza: 12 August 2018 [20 ...
Minister of Tourism and International Transport (2020–2022), Leader of Government Business in The Senate of Barbados (2022–), Minister of Energy of Barbados (2022–) Lisa Rene Cummins is a Barbadian politician.
Tom Ross (born 1981) is a British Labour politician and leader of Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council in Greater Manchester.As leader he is also a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and is the combined authority's portfolio lead for the Green City-Region.