Firemen employed by Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB) are headed for a showdown with management after failing to resolve a protracted dispute caused by a salary restructuring process. Aggrieved Firemen are unhappy over controversial new pay structure that was adopted in 2017 resulting in huge salary disparities between employees despite having similar qualifications. The new revised salary structure places the CEO at the top level seating on band 11 followed by some of the senior executive that includes of Legal Officers with firemen seating skilled category on band 2 (lower). A letter seen by this publication written by Anthony Manenji of Manenji Attorneys on behalf of the aggrieved workers to the then CAAB CEO Puseletso Moshabesha, expressed concern that issues raised by his clients were ignored. The bigger issue which firemen want to be addressed is that of the gaps between salary bands as well as imbalance between the placements of Fireman related to that of Aviation Security assistant. In a petition addressed to former minister of Transport and Communications, workers argued that problems that exist with the organisational CAAB structure is that salaries are not competitive. This according to the petition has led to some employees remaining with…