Trade Union Movement Under Siege

In view of the theme of your congress, “Quest for Collective Bargaining and Reiterating and Working Class Agenda”, my address to congress will zero on the Collective Bargaining in Botswana with a view to demonstrate how Botswana is regressing in this regard.

 I will endeavour to show how Botswana has moved some few steps forward in cultivating and nurturing for the existence of Trade Unions and the bargaining process,  and how she  has since moved, and is continuing to move many more steps backward, in the process reversing the gains. I will demonstrate the state of decline and deterioration of the bargaining processes in this country coupled with the constriction of the democratic space upon which trade unions operate.

 

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