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Oye has turned all rights to privileges, he does whatever he likes without recourse to the constitution, remittance of check off dues is statutory and payment of rebate is also statutory, but Oye has proven to us that it is only remittance of check-off that is statutory but payment of rebate is a privilege. All State Councils still have unpaid 2017 rebate, not to talk of 2020 rebate. We can all see that with Oye, we have entered one chance.

From the national executives to the shop floor members, there seems to be a great conspiracy of silence even when things are falling apart. Everyone decides to go mute to avoid the consequences of speaking. That is why I decided to the theme of messianic complex and how it is affecting us in NUFBTE.

As it stands, the shareholder-oriented paradigm has demonstrated capability as an instrument for perpetrating wage theft therefore widening income equality. The unions must reinvent their strategies and demands; the era of bread and butter negotiation must give space to a more robust agitation on why workers must have a voice on the board. The assumed Iron Gate between labor and capital is no longer fashionable and workers must seize the ugly opportunity presented by COVID-19 to break the barrier and get seats on the boards.