Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Botswana strike escalates as government sacks 'essential' workers

Some 90,000 public sector workers have struck for over a month demanding a 16 percent wage increase. The government has fired workers who defied a court order to return to work.

Does it appear that the government is sabotaging a solution?

Send solidarity messages to the president of BOFEPUSU, Masego Mogwera: masegomogwera@yahoo.com. It may not do very much, but it can't hurt.

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=24879