The chronicles of BMWU, BCL wage dispute
Friday, September 26, 2014
The time in between is splattered with demands and threats by the Union.
At one point it demanded that BCL board chairman Dr Akolang Tombale should sack the mine’s General Manager Daniel Mahupela and Divisional Manager of Organisational Capabilities Motsile Sibanda. Then union members threatened to boycott the October 24 general elections as well as to embark on a strike.
With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the...