The Grand Administrative Court has ruled to nullify the invitation of the General Union of Bahrain Trade Unions to hold the elections of the Board of Directors of the Garmco Syndicate, and the opposite lawsuit against the union rejected the union for the absence of its connection, and the union obliged the lawsuit fees and in exchange for law fees. And about the details of the lawsuit, the lawyer Osama Al -Mulla, the representative of the Garmco Syndicate, explained that the union has its independent legal personality and formed according to the provisions of the Trade Union Law, represented by a board An elected elected head of the company’s workers’ union for the eighth electoral cycle of the period 2025-2028, according to the official statement issued by the Ministry of Labor, and the General Union of Bahrain Workers Syndicate has been subjected to the plaintiff union and interfered in its affairs without a support of reality or law through the company’s call to the elections of the Board of Directors of the plaintiff’s union illegal guaranteeing questioning the legitimacy of the elected board of directors, and its formation of committees to supervise the elections, despite the claimant union. She had withdrawn from the General Union of Bahrain Trade Unions since the date of 11-22-2023. The union called for the suspension of the illegal elections called by the General Union, and to nullify the Union’s skeptical decisions in the legitimacy of its board of directors, where the lawyer Al -Mulla explained that the union withdrew from the General Union legally in November 2023 with the approval of two -thirds of the members of the General Assembly, while he responded to the union’s claim regarding the retirement of 6 members of the Board of Directors that retirement does not end the membership automatically according to the Syndicate Basic System contained in Article 9, and stressed that the Union interferes in its affairs without a right, especially after Its separation from it. The court indicated in the reasons for the ruling that the Syndicate Law (Article 4) guarantees the independence of the unions and prevents the union’s intervention except in limited cases (such as the Council of the Council with a judicial judiciary), and also confirmed that retirement does not drop the membership automatically according to the Garmco Syndicate system, noting that the union’s withdrawal from the union was legal. With the expenses of the lawsuit and for the fees of law, and secondly: in the opposite case not to accept the lawsuit to file it without an adjective and obligate the General Union to the expenses of the case.
