The trade union move­ment is seek­ing le­gal ad­vice from a se­nior con­sti­tu­tion­al at­tor­ney over the ar­rest of ac­tivist Trade Unions Move to Chal­lenge Labour Day Po­lice Ac­tion and her moth­er dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad, with Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Michael An­nisette warn­ing that the in­ci­dent rais­es se­ri­ous con­sti­tu­tion­al con­cerns and re­flects what he de­scribed as an in­creas­ing­ly em­bold­ened po­lice ser­vice un­der the State of Emer­gency.

Speak­ing at a joint trade union press con­fer­ence yes­ter­day, An­nisette said labour lead­ers have en­gaged a se­nior coun­sel to re­view the events of June 19 and ad­vise on pos­si­ble le­gal ac­tion.

“I could as­sure you that we are en­gag­ing a se­nior coun­sel to take an overview of all what has hap­pened to ad­vise us as a labour move­ment how to move for­ward in this mat­ter,” An­nisette said.