Alba Company announced that the company's administration filed a lawsuit at the police station against president of trade union Younis Al-Mubarak, in person, because of union activism and demands of workers rights.

The Gulf Air Pilots Union said it hired a lawyer to file a lawsuit against the Minister of Labor after the ministry refused to hand them over the deposit receipt, despite fulfilling the requirements.

The Labour and Social Development Ministry issued a written circular and sent to General Federation of Workers Trade Unions in Bahrain, Bahrain Free Labour Unions Federation, and trade unions in which it banned them from conducting or participating in any electoral campaign for any candidate.

Bahrain Mirror: British trade unions have launched a campaign calling for an independent audit of the UK government aid to Bahrain and an expose of �widespread and systematic� human rights abuses.