Retired Judge, Carol Munnings Misiewicz explained the injunction granted by the Supreme Court last week that halted industrial action by workers affiliated with the Bahamas Trade Union Congress.

Munnings Misiewicz said, “someone is concerned that there’s a situation of urgency and there’s a situation that needs to be protected so the party that’s applying is trying to maintain the status quo meaning in the case of the injunctions that work continues as it normally would with the airports and airlines and with the hospital and so on the services continue to be provided.   So the various entities that applied for the injunction wanted to make sure that those public services continued to be provided by saying to the unions, you’re injuncted, you cannot proceed with strike and related actions.”

The retired judge also spoke about possible next steps in the case.  She said, “it’s the normal procedure in granting an injunction that the court will grant the injunction and also give a time for the other side to be served, given notice and come in to say why the injunction ought to continue or it ought to be lifted.  So the parties against whom the injunction was issued will make the application to the court, they will file their affidavits and evidence and say why they ought to be allowed to proceed with the strike activities.”

The injunction was granted after two days of industrial action by doctors, nurses, air traffic controllers and others.