On September 2nd, 2019, several BUT members, family and friends, marched alongside our sister Unions in the Annual Labour Day celebrations. Before marching through Hamilton, participants heard speeches from BPSU President, Bro. Jason Hayward, ESTU President, Bro. Donald Lottimore, and our very own President Mr. Shannon James. Bro. James began his remarks by holding a …
“Revolutionary” changes are needed in the island’s education system, according to the general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers. Mike Charles told a crowd at the 38th Annual Labour Day Banquet last night that the Government had allowed a “second-class” public education system to continue unchanged. Mr Charles said: “A country that does not …
Teachers have “grave concerns” about pupils and staff at an East End school contaminated by asbestos, the head of the Bermuda Union of Teachers said yesterday. Shannon James, the president of the BUT, said that the union demanded the highest standards of safety in school buildings for staff and pupils. He added that news that …
A promise from the education minister that he will be the longest to serve in the post will mean nothing unless staff discontent is tackled, a union leader said yesterday. Mike Charles, the general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said: “To say that one is the longest-standing minister means nothing if we have …
We, as a body of professional educators, are not opposed to Standards-Based Education/Grading (SBG) and feel that it has the potential to be a very positive way forward for the Bermuda Public School System. We are, however, left deeply frustrated by how poorly it has been implemented. Since it was first introduced in 2015, we …
Conceived at the gravesite of Miss Rosa Butterfield in 1919, the Bermuda Union of Teachers has forged a story to be celebrated, commemorated, and awed by. As the story goes: having grown utterly distraught by watching several of their colleagues in the teaching profession pass before their time [Miss Butterfield was just 43 years old], …
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