Order strips BLLAHWU 'members' right to enjoy enhanced salaries'

The union is seeking court intervention to have the temporary order made by the Industrial Court on July 17, 2025, which barred the government from implementing an agreement they made with the union concerning salary and working conditions for its members set aside. The rule nisi order was obtained by trade unions acting under the banner 5+1, which are National Amalgamated Local, Central, Parastatal and Government Workers Union (NALCPGWU), Botswana Public Employees' Union (BOPEU) Botswana Teachers Union (BTU), Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU), Botswana Nurses Union (BONU), and Botswana Doctors Union (BDU) after government and BLLAHWU went ahead and reached an agreement on the salaries and conditions of service for the union's members after talks between the trade unions collapsed.

In an urgent matter that will be heard this morning (August 5) at the Gaborone Industrial Court, BLLAHWU is arguing that when the July 17, 2025, temporary order was granted to interdict the implementation, the horses had already bolted, as some beneficiaries had already received their dues in terms of the same agreement.