CEC workers at Maun Airport strike

The employees are demanding monies they are owed by the company for working on weekends and public holidays. The employees expressed a litany of grievances with their employer, amongst them the use of abusive language by company senior staff to their juniors during working hours that the management has allegedly been notified of and failed to address.

When Mmegi visited the construction site, operations had come to a standstill and for the rest of the day the employees, mostly laborers, drivers, excavator operators, mechanics and other support staff congregated outside the construction site offices declaring loudly that they want money first before they can return to work. One of the laborers said loudly to the reporters: "ba kare koba mo tirong fa ba batla. E company fa o e bereka o a bo o ineetse mo bokgobeng." (let them fire us from work. If you work for this company you have given up yourself to slavery).