This blog will be devoted to exploring why cost-of-living allowances are necessary for working people, and why the world's largest financial institutions are trying to take them away from us.
Frederick Douglass
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Botswana Gets Good Rating For Suppressing The Public Sector Unions.
The same international capital which created the high inflation which necessitated the unions' pay increase demands, has now rewarded The Botswanan government for its treachery.
Botswana Holds Off Labor Unions, Keeps Top Africa Credit Rating
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-06-12/botswana-holds-off-labor-unions-keeps-top-africa-credit-rating.html
Meanwhile, the cash-rich Botswanan government, which is a partner in Debswana (deBeers of Botswana, owned in part by the Rothschilds and the Oppenheimers), is about to get richer.
BOTSWANA DIAMONDS IDENTIFIES POTENTIALLY DIAMONDIFEROUS ROCK LAYERS IN CAMEROON LICENSE
http://www.diamondintelligence.com/magazine/magazine.aspx?id=9609
The workers fought the good fight, but they were opposed not only by their treasonous government, but by two of the richest banking families in the world. They were heroic, but they really never had much of a chance. How many Goliaths can one David slay?
Here are some analyses of the strike.
http://thinkafricapress.com/botswana/experts-weekly-strikes-botswana