Illegal lock-outs by employers: Despite a reinstatement order by the court, the company Petrotrin refused to allow some members of the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union to report for work on 23 March 2013. The workers had been suspended for participating in a protest in front of Tower D of the Port-of-Spain International Waterfront Centre. The situation was resolved when the union complained to Petrotrin's President.

Interference in trade union activities: Orville Carrington, the Vice President of the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA), was barred from entering the Ministry of Education for negotiations for having allegedly used threatening language. The union argued that the real reason for this order was to interfere with its right to represent the interests of workers in all workplaces.

Workers excluded from the right to strike: Members of the teaching service and employees of the Central Bank are prohibited from taking industrial action, such action being subject to a penalty of up to 18 months' imprisonment.

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