Working conditions and casual labor. The Budg-Buy food chain, still locked in a legal battle with the Barbados Workers' Union over the severance of supervisors, has been warned against oppressing its workers. The Cabinet rejected the latest application submitted by T-Bone Investments to open a MacDonalds here. BWU members laid off in the 1990s often started food businesses of their own, and they now fear the fast food giant will destroy the small businesses. Gravediggers, who have threatened industrial action if they are not granted a hazard allowance, do not have the backing of their trade union.
Meeting fails for lack of quorum.