UNITRANS Employees Free To Join Union

Monday, September 18, 2017

Trucks at Tlokweng boarder gate.PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Employees of UNITRANS Botswana are now free to decide whether to join or not to join the newly registered union, the Botswana Bulk-Vehicle Operators, Commercial and General Workers Union (BOBOGEWU) following an Industrial Court order issued last Friday.

Justice Tapiwa Marumo of the Industrial Court ordered, by consent, that the two parties respect the right of employees to join or not to join the union of their choosing.

This followed a court case in which BOBOGEWU had approached the court seeking an interdict against UNITRANS Botswana from intimidating, harassing and coercing its members from leaving the union.

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