It appears hostilities between government and local trade unions will not end soon. While the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs Edwin Batshu has denied that the amendment of the Trade Dispute Act has ill-motives, unions are maintaining that it is aimed at curtailing their powers.
But Batshu insisted that trade unions are misleading the public. He said government's intentions for amending the trade dispute act were in fact people-centred and aimed at doing away with delays in resolutions of labour disputes by specifically giving labour officers the powers to deal with unscrupulous employers.
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