- Title
- First strike capability: exploring the 2011 Botswana public sector strike through newspaper coverage
- Creator
- Macneil, Johanna
- Relation
- 27th AIRAANZ Conference. Work, Employment and Employment Relations in an Uneven Patchwork World: Proceedings of the 27th AIRAANZ Conference (Fremantle, WA 6-8 February, 2013) p. 147-157
- Relation
- http://www.airaanz.org/2013-conference-main.html
- Publisher
- Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This paper proposes that the lack of industrial relations (IR) experience or knowledge amongst the negotiating parties both caused and characterized the major 2011 public sector strike in Botswana. Specifically, with no real collective bargaining experience amongst the actors, and little in the way of formal legislative or regulatory guidance, the social processes of creating, interpreting, changing and enforcing the bargaining rules were reactive, evolving, and imperfect. Using ethnographic content analysis of stories from two newspapers - one government, one independent - two examples are provided in illustration - the interpretation and application of the 'no work, no pay rule', and the progress of the bargaining rounds. The conclusion poses questions for further consideration.
- Subject
- Botswana; public sector; strike; newspaper coverage
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341980
- Identifier
- uon:28858
- Language
- eng
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