As Labour Unions Speak Truth To Power

 By Ayo Oyoze Baje

 “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;/ The eternal years of God are hers./ But error, wounded, writhes with pain./ And dies amongst his worshippers” – Willian Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) 

From the historical perspective, and going by the dictates of democracy, as expressly stated by the Greek tribes that had founded the city-states, after doing away with monarchy by 700 BC, where one person ruled and subsequently aristocracy at about 500BC, it is a “government of the people, by the people and for the people”. Democratic governance is therefore, meant to serve the overall interests of the vast majority of the people and not the favoured few as it had played out with aristocracy.