A special meeting of the Public Service Bargaining Council (PSBC) was convened on 18th April 2017 at 1400hrs at the Botswana Bureau of Standards. The purpose of the special meeting was to continue with the negotiations of the public service salaries and other conditions of service for the financial year 2016/17. BOFEPUSU AJA compromisesAt this meeting, the union party, just from the beginning, extended its hand to the employer party that it (union party) accepts the 3% that the employer party tabled on 2nd November 2016. The union party further indicated that as a consequence of the gesture to compromise and accept the 3%; the council should not waste time and deliberate on each and every item on agenda. The union party indicated that, they compromise to accept the 3% in view of the fact that the public service is currently deeply divided and polarised owing to differential treatment with the 3% issue, and as such, it (union party) endeavours to act in the interest of the nation to bring harmony, peace, stability and sanity within the public Service. Govt rejects the compromiseThe employer party on the other hand, could not embrace the acceptance of the 3% by the union…