Accusing management of the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) of trying to block workers from joining his union, General Secretary of the Unity Workers’ Union (UWU) Caswell Franklyn is warning he will take the matter as far as the courts if necessary.Franklyn told Barbados TODAY that approximately 80 SSA workers have filled out application forms to join the UWU. However, several of them have complained to him that their requests for the SSA’s accounts department to stop deducting National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) dues from their salaries have been denied.The outspoken trade unionist said he believed this was a deliberate act to force the workers to remain with the NUPW even though they have indicated they no longer want that union to represent them.“These are workers who are trying to leave the NUPW and have gone to the accounts department and told them to ‘stop taking out my money for NUPW’ and they told them ‘no’. They told them to go to the NUPW and get permission first. This is wrong.
