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By Alois Vinga
FIXED telecommunications operator, TelOne is in the process of laying off 423 of its workers, the majority of whom still had Grade 7 and Zimbabwe Junior Certificate (ZJC) as highest qualification in their CVs.
The state firm is keen on having technologically skilled employees in its payroll to match a highly competitive digital world.
The affected employees have, through their unions, raised the red flag against what they find to be an unfair labour decision surrounding their fate.
But company head of corporate communications, Melody Harry told NewZimbabwe.com Friday the workers being targeted for the chop did not possess even Ordinary Level qualifications and the relevant technological skills required to turn around the company’s fortunes.
Trade union elections are about labour politics – the condition and treatment of the workers represented by the trade union in question – not Labour politics. But elections in Labour’s affiliated trade unions have significant consequences for the inner life of the party, because the unions play a crucial role in both the development of the party’s manifesto and the selection of candidates. The reality, however, is that the looming Unite general secretary election will, in common with most other trade union elections, be fought on competing platforms of “things have never been better, stay the course” and “let’s do more for our members, it’s time for change”. (Dave Ward, the general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, and probably the most influential trade union leader during the Corbyn era, was elected not because of a big argument about the relationship between the CWU and Labour but because of the credibility he had won thanks to his activi
High COVID-19 infection rates in Barnsley: National disparity mirrors map of social inequality
Statistics have confirmed a major disparity between rates of transmission of COVID-19 across England that mirror rates of social inequality.
The current “Stage Two” of the reopening of the economy by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government includes non-essential shops, hairdressers and nail bars, beer gardens and other areas of leisure and hospitality. It has been accompanied by a major propaganda exercise to claim that the worst of the pandemic is over, allowing a return to economic normality.
Johnson himself gave the lie to such claims when, just 24 hours after the launch of Stage Two, he admitted that the reduction in the numbers of infections, hospital admissions and deaths “has not been achieved by the vaccination programme” but was due to the now abandoned lockdown.