Abstract
Collective bargaining is a veritable means for parties to engage on social dialogue. International Labour Organisation encourage member states to setup structures and platforms, such as bargaining councils for social dialogue. The paper delves into Public Service Bargaining Council (PSBC) in Botswana and seeks to explore reasons for its collapse. Exploring reasons for the collapse of PSBC, will help inform the work of social partners in resuscitating the council, and avoid repeating same mistakes. To realise this objective, the study adopted a qualitative phenomenological research design. The research was done in Botswana's public sector, employing a sample size of fifteen (15) participants that were purposively selected. Research participants were interviewed face to face and the data was processed qualitatively by thematic analysis. The study revealed that currently, there are no bargaining councils in public service and parties have been trying to resuscitate the collapsed PSBC through negotiating a new PSBC constitution. However, the process has been dragging for too long. Given the stark changes that could come with the revival of the PSBC, the parties ought to speed up the process so that collective bargaining can be done under the rightful platforms, as opposed to one on one, and through cooperating trade unions. Issue 2/2024 309