By Ukandi G Damachi, Hans D Seibel, Jeroen Scheerder, Henrik Linden
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Policy concerning employment priorities, industrial and other investments, and general wage limitations is fixed five years in advance by the development plans in which the labour movement often has had little opportunity to express an opinion. When the less formal procedures of the palaver or- 30 Industrial Relations in Africa to use the term currently in fashion - dialogue fail, there often is little choice left other than some form of conflict between labour and government. III. EVOLUTION OF TRADE UNIONISM16 A.
Neither individual workers nor their trade union organisations are free to criticise openly or challenge the decisions of the political leaders. Policy concerning employment priorities, industrial and other investments, and general wage limitations is fixed five years in advance by the development plans in which the labour movement often has had little opportunity to express an opinion. When the less formal procedures of the palaver or- 30 Industrial Relations in Africa to use the term currently in fashion - dialogue fail, there often is little choice left other than some form of conflict between labour and government.
Energies were immediately channelled into the struggle for a fair application of the provisions of the Overseas Labour Code. The key issue was the maintenance of the workers' weekly wage level even though working hours had been cut from forty- French-speaking West Africa 35 eight to forty. This led to a new wave of protests and strikes which corresponded with a revival of a more nationalistic spirit among the West African political parties during the mid-1950s. 28 In 1955 the three CGT West African secretaries-general, Sekou Toure (Guinea), Seydou Diallo (Mali), and Bassirou Gueye (Senegal) revolted against the French central and led about half the movement's membership into a newly created, autonomous organisation, the Confederation Generale du Travail Africaine (CGTA).