The Barbados Workers' Union

The union consists of the following departments: Industrial Relations Finance and Administration Education Public Relations and Communications Counseling and Wellness The union has a staff of fifty persons including staff attached to the Labour College. The objects of the union are set out at Rule 2 of the Rules and Regulations of the Union and include: To secure the complete organisation in the union of all workers employed in all the trades, industries, and occupations in the island. To obtain and maintain just wages, reasonable working hours, holidays and other conditions of employment, and generally to protect the interests of its members. To secure legislation which will safeguard and improve the economic security and social welfare of workers, protect and extend our democratic institutions and civil rights and liberties Generally to promote the material, social and educational welfare of the members in any lawful manner in which the Annual Conference may from time to time deem expedient.