The origins of collective bargaining in Botswana arerelatively young. Compared to other African countries like South Africa and Zimbabwe, collective bargaining can be considered a late developer in Botswana. The government has been a dominant player inindustrial relations in the public sector in Botswana.Unitary approach does not believe in third-party intervention, such as trade unions. Trade unions are at best antagonists and impostors to matters that are a prerogative of the employer. The paper exploresthe unitary tendencies and employer resistance to collective bargaining. To realise this objective the paper adopted a social constructivism approach within a qualitative framework, to solicit people’s subjective views about the phenomenon of interest. The paper used a sample size of fifteen (15) participants from the public service and trade unions. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. The findings of the study revealed resistance to collective bargaining as demonstrated by several government unilateral decision-making tendencies. The study recommends that the government as the employer should accept aparadigm shift from a unilateral way of doing things and embrace collective bargaining as a genuine means for joint decision making

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