Unions reject 15%, demand negotiations

He said government spent more than P6 million on last year's salary review commission. 
Radibe said at a meeting held over the weekend that, BTU, the Botswana Secondary School Teachers Union (BOSETU) and the Botswana Land Board Local Authority Workers Union rejected the 15 percent salary increase decided by the government.

He said they rejected the increase  because it is not level with the inflationary rate. He suggested that workers should not be awarded increases across the board. Rather, he said, the increase should be based on a pyramid based structure. As it is, he said, lowly paid workers have not been considered.