Ahead of an urgent appeal next week, the leadership of public sector federation BOFEPUSU have criticised Industrial Court president Justice Tebogo Maruping for ordering feuding trade unions to go for mediation to resolve the dispute over admission to the public sector bargaining council (PSBC). Clearly unhappy with the judgement federation general secretary Tobokani Rari said the decision has glaring errors and as much as they respect it, they differ with judge Maruping's findings. He said they should not be blamed for the protracted legal battle since they are just respondents in the matter who want the Court of Appeal to assist with interpretation of clauses of the constitution, which Maruping failed to do. Rari accused Maruping of overlooking the provision for an Acting Jointly Arrangement in the PSBC constitution, and wrongly assuming that the name Bofepusu in the application for admission referred to the federation despite that the union lawyers repeatedly argued to the contrary. "Maruping's judgement seeks to alter the constitution of PSBC, and we differ with such interpretation. Maruping contradicts himself, even after finding that only individual trade unions should be admitted to PSBC and repeatedly accepting that Manual Workers Union are the only ones who qualify he…
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