Uganda, Nov. 22 -- This afternoon, at about 2:30pm, top labour union leaders are expected to assemble at the main boardroom of the Gender and Labour ministry in Kampala to discuss a raft of governance issues afflicting operations of workers' associations in the country.

On one side of the gleaming hardwood table will be the line ministers and permanent secretary, or their assignees, while already sparring leaders of various workers' groups and their national umbrella body, Notu, will sit on the other side.

Notu, the popular acronym by which the National Organisation of Trade Unions in Uganda is known, comprises 34 affiliates, each with own executives and all of them individually represented on the nationally body.

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