Port workers return to work as SWWTU challenges injunction warning

Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent Michael An­nisette says port work­ers have re­turned to their jobs af­ter man­age­ment be­gan ad­dress­ing some of the health and safe­ty con­cerns which trig­gered days of in­de­pen­dent protest ac­tion at the Port of Port-of-Spain.

How­ev­er, An­nisette has re­ject­ed an at­tempt to link the work­ers’ ac­tions to an ex­ist­ing court in­junc­tion against in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions ac­tion, ar­gu­ing that em­ploy­ees have a sep­a­rate right to re­move them­selves from con­di­tions they con­sid­er un­safe.

His com­ments came af­ter the union re­ceived a let­ter con­cern­ing the work­ers’ re­cent ac­tion.