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The unprecedentedly long negotiations that tested UDC/unions relations

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While salary and conditions of service negotiations between the employer and labour unions are never easy, the 2025 talks will go down in the history annals as some that took an unprecedentedly ‘long time’ according to labour unions' leaders. Mmegi Staffer GOITSEMODIMO KAELO reflects on the 2025-26 salary and conditions of service negotiations

The birth of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) could in part be attributed to the labour unions, who have for a long time called for a united opposition that can dislodge the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power.

The idea and the impetus for forming the UDC came from the labour movement, specifically the Botswana Federation of Public, Private & Parastatal Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) following the 2011 strike.

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