"Unity in Diversity"
GENEVA (ILO News) – On 30 January 2023, Canada deposited the instrument of ratification of the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) with the Director-General of the ILO.By submitting the instrument of ratification, Canada becomes the 25th country in the world, and the 8th country in…
General Secretary of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), Stephen Cotton, has sent a congratulatory message to Sen. David Massiah on his recent appointment to the Senate of Antigua and Barbuda. In his message, Cotton said he admired Massiah’s “commitment and unrelenting work to de…
The Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union (ABWU) congratulates General Secretary, David Massiah, on his appointment to the Senate of Antigua and Barbuda. Massiah previously served in the Senate between March 2004 and 2014 under the United Progressive Party Administration. The ABWU believes that this…
The Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union wishes to express its disappointment in comments made by Prime Minister Gaston Browne on his radio station – Pointe FM – on Saturday 21 January. Browne accused the employees of the state-owned APUA Water Department of sabotaging the water network. He also went…
The newly elected Executive Members of the Antigua & Barbuda Trade Union Congress (TUC), along with its nine affiliate member organizations have made a commitment to uphold the institution’s motto: Empowering the Labour Movement for Sustainable Development. The year 2022 was not without unexpec…
The Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union (ABWU) has for several months been agitating on the issue of the National Minimum Wage. Throughout 2022, the ABWU researched and contemplated this issue in considerable detail as a member of the National Minimum Wage Advisory Committee. We were greatly disappo…
The Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union (ABWU), along with other workers’ organizations and employers, recently participated in a capacity-building workshop on the transition to a green economy. The workshop was facilitated by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) with support from the United…
More than 100 individuals will receive grocery vouchers ahead of the Christmas Holidays, compliments of the Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union (ABWU).The goodwill gesture is an annual outreach activity organized by the Union’s Welfare Committee. The beneficiaries include founding members, past memb…
The Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union is pleased to announce that severance payments and other entitlements have been issued to the former employees of Jolly Beach Corporation. The payments come more than two years after the hotel property ceased operations. Since then, the workers and the Union…
Former employees of Jolly Beach Corporation have begun to collect severance payments at the Antigua and Barbuda Workers' Union. The severance payments come more than two years after the hotel property ceased operations. Since then, the workers and the Union have been engaged in a protracted severan…