Union challenges BotswanaPost 'divisive' offer
Friday, May 21, 2010
The BotswanaPost offer, which Mmegi is in possession of, states that outstanding performer will get a 12-percent salary increase, a very good performers a 10-percent increase, and a good performer will get 8 percent, an average performer will get a 6-percent salary increase, while a poor one will get no increment at all.
Enter the Botswana Postal Services Workers Union. The union has discovered something fishy about the BotswanaPost offer: it is for non-unionionised members only.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...