The real world of business is competition and cooperation. In public discussion the Minister states that to have a peaceful labour market, employers need regulating, and it is his determination to change their way of doing business to suit his ideal and perhaps that of the agitators. It is important to note that it is the government employees that are the lawbreakers. Furthermore their threats of violence and disruption are rewarded with severance payments beyond anything that private business could afford. This is not an option for the private sector, they have to bail themselves out or go out of business altogether.
Government goes to the public treasury and uses taxpayer money.
Rewarding the disruption and violence of the government unions simply buys more of it. Minister Foulkes might well ask himself how much of this can the country afford, particularly when his labour legislation ties the hands of the businessman - the ones who are making a peaceful contribution to the country's prosperity. The threat of Labour Legislation in various forms has been held over the heads of Bahamian business for the past 10 years or more. It was initiated by the PLP having derived from the militant policies of the Socialist Labour governments of Great Britain. The militant unions in that country inflicted serious damage to the British economy.