Second workers union registers at BMC

The Botswana Meat Industry Workers Union (BMIWU) seems to have irretrievably split. The split of the unions has resulted in problems that are said to have haunted the union since 2004 involving mismanagement of funds. There followed a series of issues that the union members could not resolve successfully.

Speaking to Mmegi, the secretary general of the new union, the Meat Processors Staff Workers Union (MPSWU), Joshua Gabriel, a former deputy general secretary of the BMIWU says that the new MPSWU is officially a union as the Ministry of Trade and Industry issued them with a certificate of registration from the Registrar of Trade Unions and Employers Organisations on March 3, this year.
Gabriel said that their relationship with the BMIWU could not be saved and that is why they decided to form their own union.