OWTU awaits Privy Council ruling on Petrotrin shutdown

The Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) will have to wait to learn the fi­nal fate of its case over the fail­ure of the for­mer board of the now-de­funct Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Petrotrin) to con­sult be­fore mov­ing to shut the com­pa­ny down in 2018.

Five Lords of the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil re­served their judg­ment in the union’s ap­peal af­ter hear­ing sub­mis­sions at the UK Supreme Court Build­ing in Lon­don, Eng­land, yes­ter­day.

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In the ap­peal, the union is claim­ing that the lo­cal Court of Ap­peal was wrong to have re­versed a de­ci­sion of the In­dus­tri­al Court to up­hold its in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions of­fence (IRO) against the for­mer State-owned en­er­gy com­pa­ny.