Should politicians take part in union strikes?

One group feels that unions should only address the economic and working conditions of the workers and desist from becoming political actors. The other insists that in a liberal democracy, unions are part of the political process adding that workers and politicians are "comrades in arms" who cannot be expected to stay an arms length relationship with each other.

Addressing workers in the on-going BOFEPUSU-led strike in Francistown, the Regional Secretary, Tshekatsheko Lekang, said that if the government continues breaching the strike rules, the union will have no choice but to ask for assistance from opposition parties.