BOFEPUSU, BFTU romance welcome

Friday, June 01, 2018

The recent announcement by the trade union federations, the Botswana Federation of Trade Union (BFTU) and Botswana Federation of Public Private Parastatals Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) that they have agreed to work together during this year's International Labour Conference is a welcome development.

This is something worth celebrating by the Botswana workers who have been unfairly caught in between the fight of the two organisations.

For a very long time, the two have had a regrettable acrimony existing between them, something that rubbed off on activists of the two groups such that they had resorted to malice, propaganda, mudslinging, bad-mouthing and poignantly defying the international trade union core value, ‘solidarity’.

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