The In­dus­tri­al Court has grant­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) an ex­ten­sion to the in­junc­tion against the Oil Field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU).

This, T&TEC said, is to pre­vent the union from pick­et­ing the homes of var­i­ous of­fi­cials of the com­mis­sion. On No­vem­ber 8, work­ers protest­ed out­side the Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties’ house in Ari­ma.

In a press re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day, T&TEC said, “The or­der was grant­ed by Jus­tices Heather Seale, Her­bert Sover­all, and Michelle Ann Austin at the In­dus­tri­al Court.”

Ac­cord­ing to the com­mis­sion, the amend­ed ap­pli­ca­tion to the court to “pre­vent fur­ther acts of un­law­ful in­dus­tri­al ac­tion” by the union, was made on De­cem­ber 2.

Guardian Me­dia tried call­ing OW­TU Chief Ed­u­ca­tion and Re­search Of­fi­cer Ozzi War­wick for com­ment but calls went unan­swered.

How­ev­er, when the union was first threat­ened with le­gal ac­tion back in Oc­to­ber, pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get said work­ers would not be “bul­lied” by the com­pa­ny and would con­tin­ue protest­ing un­til their is­sues were ad­dressed.

In keep­ing with the court’s di­rec­tive, T&TEC said the text of the in­junc­tion will be pub­lished for two weeks once the fi­nal or­der had been is­sued.