President General of the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) Robert Corbin and others have obtained injunctions against the GLU and its General Secretary Carvil Duncan.
According to a press release, Corbin, GLU President Stanley Troyer and Vice President Valarie Bishop obtained injunctions in the High Court which direct and restrain Duncan and the GLU from preventing or restraining Corbin and Troyer from discharging their functions, until the holding of elections in accordance with the rules of the GLU. The writ was filed in the High Court on December 27 and the matter is returnable for January 22, 2008.
According to the press release, Duncan and the GLU have been prohibited from acting, upon and/or implementing the purported decisions of a meeting of the National Executive Council held on November 16.
The release added that Duncan has also been directed to produce the audited financial statements of the GLU for the years 2000, 2001, 2002 and the un-audited financial statements for 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
He has also been prohibited from withdrawing or in any other way disbursing monies, funds and monies held in accounts belonging to the union without the signature and/or approval of the President General or in his absence that of the President in accordance with the union rules.
Further, the release said, the order prohibits Duncan, the GLU, their agents and/or officers from declaring or announcing the results of Elections purportedly held by the union in October 2007 or any later time by any person other than Godwin Mc Pherson.
It directs the union to hold elections for members of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the GLU in accordance with the rules of the union as early as practicable.
Last month, Duncan has issued a press release disqualifying Corbin, who is also Opposition Leader, and Troyer as president general and president of the union respectively because they had not been paying their union dues. Duncan said his accounts showed that Corbin was never a member of the GLU, thus he could not have qualified to be elected in 2004 as president general. Duncan said there was no record of his application for membership and in Troyer’s case, he had not paid union dues since 2005.
When contacted Corbin had insisted that his name had appeared on a list of GLU financial members just three months before adding that it was clear that “Duncan is panicking”, since he was sent a letter asking him to present a financial report at special executive meeting.
