BFTU returns fire on BOFEPUSU

The ILC is an annual global meeting of International Labour Organization (ILO) member states, with each delegation consisting of two government officials, an employer, a worker and their respective advisers. Worker delegates are nominated in agreement with the most representative national organisations of workers.

The two federations crossed swords in the Swiss capital last week, with disputes over who would represent local labour before the ILO and who would lead the case against the Botswana government for violating workers’ rights. Back on home soil, both federations called competing press conferences on Tuesday in which they lambasted each other, with BOFEPUSU demanding an audit of BFTU’s structures and questioning its right to exist.