BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos–The Bar­ba­dos Work­ers Union (BWU) has wel­comed the agree­ment reached dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Sat­ur­day with the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny, Ca­ble and Wire­less (Bar­ba­dos) Ltd, avert­ing a na­tion­wide strike over the dis­missal of near­ly 100 work­ers.

BWU gen­er­al sec­re­tary, Sir Roy Trot­man, speak­ing to re­porters at the end of a marathon round of talks un­der the guid­ance of Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Fre­un­del Stu­art, said while he was pleased with the out­come there is still some work to do.Ear­li­er this month, the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion com­pa­ny op­er­at­ing here un­der the brand name, LIME, blamed sub­stan­tial loss­es and said that it would be out­sourc­ing its re­tail op­er­a­tions in a bid to im­prove its fi­nan­cial po­si­tion.

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