A day of action to protect the right to strike
Friday, February 20, 2015
Botswana Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU), an affiliate of ITUC, joins all workers across the world in this campaign to protect workers’ fundamental right to strike.
The campaign involves, among other things, soliciting for Government support to protect the right to strike and secondly to get support for the dispute on the right to strike to be resolved speedily by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). BFTU has so far written to the Government of Botswana to solicit support as mentioned above and also Botswana Confederation of Commerce Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM) to get their stand on this matter.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...