Darrell Bradley Says C.W.U. Should Have Been Free to Proceed With Payments

Evan “Mose” Hyde

With its online system frozen, the union is unable to determine what its balance is in respect of the monies it has paid out to stevedores. Meanwhile, the union’s attorney argues that prior to the injunction being granted on Monday afternoon, the C.W.U. was free to proceed with its payments.

Darrell Bradley

Evan “Mose” Hyde, President, Christian Workers Union

“We have not been able to even access our online information, so we don’t even have an ability to do any kind of reconciliation because it would appear like to me that online access to the account has been blocked. So we’re not even able to log in. So right now, as we are speaking, we don’t even know what’s left in the account. Obviously there is going to be money left in the account which is obviously under the injunction but we can’t tell you what has actually come out. We are trying to resolve it but based on, based on how we are being treated right now, like some kind of financial pariah, so overall I am saying to you that what is emerging [is that] banks are very uncomfortable to deal with us and I believe that this is also a consequence. This is a part of that, it must be that the decision has been made that it’s best to not have that log-in work. Maybe it is an I.T. issue at the bank, but it would be a strange timed one, but that’s where it is for us now.”

Darrell Bradley, Attorney-at-law

“If you ask me for an undertaking which is that you’re asking me to voluntarily, and I want to emphasize that word, you’re asking me to voluntarily desist with a course of action and I tell you, after having consulted with the clients, that we will not give the undertaking, what does that indicate? That we will continue with the course of actions which have been underlined, so that this view or this statement that somehow because you have knowledge of something, you are supposed to stop. That is not law. Law is that you follow court orders, you follow court judgments. On Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday up until two something, there was no injunction restraining any officer of the C.W.U. from doing anything.”