TIWU loses bid to throw out expelled members’ lawsuit

The Trans­port and In­dus­tri­al Work­ers Union has failed in its bid to have a law­suit over its move to ex­pel 10 long-stand­ing mem­bers dis­missed at a pre­lim­i­nary stage.

De­liv­er­ing a de­ci­sion on Fri­day, High Court Judge Sab­ri­na Dougdeen-Jaglal dis­missed an ap­pli­ca­tion from the union to strike out the law­suit brought by Nichola Bish­op, Ri­car­do Charles, Steve Khan, Gy­a­tre Lind­say, Camille Ot­t­ley, Lei­ba Phillips, Kevon Roberts, Can­dace Trot­man, Shelly Vil­lafana and Nigel Williams.

In the ap­pli­ca­tion, the union claimed the group did not have a le­git­i­mate cause of ac­tion, as the com­plaints in their law­suit con­sti­tut­ed a trade dis­pute that should be in­stead con­sid­ered by the In­dus­tri­al Court.