Issues around presidency of BLLHWU

The local government workers union goes to its annual conference in Mochudi this week in the background of a furious debate about the relative strength of public sector organisations which were previously denied the right to organise and form trade unions, as against the others contemptuously referred to as 'small unions'.

There is also the debate about the role of business in the life of the trade unions.  That walks side by side with the role of employees in the management of the financial investments of the organisation, and how their offices impact on the mandate of the workers organisations.