Govt�s Plan To Kill Unions Exposed

A plan to revoke deduction codes from the public sector trade unions by government using the Accountant General’s office in the Ministry of Finance has been unmasked after the office had attempted to convince a company owned by the public sector trade unions which is also in charge of deduction codes for three of the powerful unions, into surrendering the tool. The deduction codes are deemed as a profound right of trade unions in the same breath as organisational rights, and the right to bargain with the employer.

The company, BOTUSAFE, owned by BOPEU, BTU and BOSETU, recently had visitors from the accountant general telling it that they will be discontinuing the deduction codes to replace them with a new system that will be run or managed directly from the Accountant General’s office.