General secretary of Unity Workers’ Union (UWU), Caswell Franklyn, is charging that the Barbados Energy and Sugar Company Inc. (BESCO) is acting illegally over a memorandum it sent to workers after they staged industrial action at Portvale Sugar Factory on Monday.

The memo, dated November 3 under BESCO letterhead, is addressed to all staff from management on “unauthorised industrial action”.

Identifying the protest as a wildcat strike, the correspondence stated that employees would not be paid for their unauthorised absence from work, and that they were “expected to utilise th

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