Trade Unions in Bermuda

What is a trade union?

• A trade union is an organization made up of members who are workers in a specific profession

• A trade union is an organization made up of members who are not workers

What are the aims/goals of a trade union?

• One aim/goal of a trade union is to protect and advance the interests of its members in the workplace.

• One aim/goal of a trade union is to ensure workers grievances are heard.

• One aim/goal of a trade union is to ensure workers are treated fairly

• All of the above

True or false? The Bermuda Workers Association was formed in Bermuda due to a dispute at the U.S. bases over grievances of underpaid workers.

• True

• False

The very first union to be formed in Bermuda was?

• Bermuda Union of teachers

• Bermuda Industrial Union

• Bermuda Public Service Union

• Bermuda Workers Association

BIU stands for which of the unions below?

• Bermuda Public Service Union

• Bermuda Workers Union

• Bermuda Union of teachers

• Bermuda Industrial Union

Which of the choices below are achievements of Bermuda's unions?

• Maternity leave

• Paternity leave

• sick pay

• vacation pay

• All of the above

Which of the choices below define the term grievance?

• a real or imaged wrong or other cause for complaint for protest

• a reason or imagined reason to riot

• a real or imaged reason to destroy property

How do people protest laws and or unjust rules and policies they don't agree with?

• March, write letters, boycott

• Picket, write speeches

• they create posters and sign petitions

• They riot

• All of the above

Which of the following forms of protests is based on anger and emotions?

• pickets

• marching

• signing petitions

• None of the above

Which form of protests may lead to vandalism and loss of life and damage to property?

• Signing Petitions

• Riots

• Boycotts

• Letter writing campaigns