Mr. Bain took grave exception to comments made by Mr. Kerzner about last week’s agreement signed between the government owned Radisson Hotal and the Hotel Managerial Association, headed by Obie Ferguson.
Last week Mr. Kerzner was quoted as saying that the agreement with middle management “sounded bizarre”.
“In terms of this agreement at Radisson we will need to study the whole matter further before we have a definitive position as to whether or not this affects our thinking on future expansion. I just don’t know at this time.”
In Mr. Bain’s opinion the “Kerzner statement is subtle but loaded with threatening overtones. He (Kerzner) appears to be gerring into an area that is none of his business. What the Hotel Corporation has done by rightfully signing this agreement with managerial workers at Radisson has nothing to do with Kerzner or kerzner International. Yet he labels it ‘bizarre’ and ‘totally inconsistent with where the rest of the world is headed in the twenty-first century.’ That is the people’s choice.”
The NCTU president claimed that based on what he gathered from Mr. Kerzner’s comments in the press reports, “he seemed worried that the government has set the tone as an example, for all employers in the industry.”
Mr. Bain said “his apparent concern is understandable considering that hotel workers, including those in Atlantis, remain upset over stalled negotiations for a new industrial contract.”
Source: Danielle Stubbs, The Tribune
