Labour versus party politics

The 2011 public sector strike brought together unions and opposition parties
The 2011 public sector strike brought together unions and opposition parties

As a regular reader of your newspaper, I have read Mmegi edition of Tuesday, 2” September 2014, vol 3l” no, 130 under the Heading; BOFEPUSU will Vote for UDC. Allow me with due respect to express my reservation and discontent with the said statement and position. I assume that such statement was communicated on behalf of BOFEPUSU five affiliates member unions and BOPEU being one.

The statement is worrisome to me as a member of BOPEU, hence the need to put our union principle position in its broader perspective. In the said statement it was remarkably stated that” the UDC is a brainchild of BOFEPUSU and its affiliate member unions and the idea of uniting the opposition parties was conceptualized during the 2011 nationwide strike, but some members want to renege the idea, under the pretext that they first need to get mandate from the ‘membership”.

First and foremost, our comrades in BOFEPUSU leadership must understand that, the sector federation was formed by five affiliates member unions primarily to combine forces in order to enhance the unions power and status, the motive of forming BOFEPUSU was simply for the provision of a forum for collective bargaining purposes in the public service and not otherwise. It was never intended to create a platform or an umbrella body that will coordinate opposition unity and or political issues at national level; because already there is a national federation (BFTU) empowered and responsible for that at national level.

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