Zim workers under siege: Global Report
January 10, 2021 in Local, News
BY MOSES MATENGA
ZIMBABWE has been red-flagged as one of the world’s 10 worst countries regarding workers’ welfare. Violations of workers’ rights, including abductions and other forms of violence and threats of harm, are cited.
According to the International Trade Union Confederation’s documentation of violations of workers’ rights, Zimbabwe joined the bad boys’ club including Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Colombia, Egypt, Honduras, Kazakhstan, the Philippines and Turkey where workers’ rights were brazenly violated.
“In the aftermath of the violent attacks against workers during the general strikes organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in October 2018 and January 2019, Zimbabwe continued its crackdown against trade unions,” the report said.
By Alois Vinga
LABOUR Minister Paul Mavima has criticised unions for pulling out of a dialogue process following a deadlock over demands by workers to be awarded US dollar-based wages.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), civil servants’ representative Apex Council and the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions (ZFTU) recently joined hands to snub the Tripartite Negotiation Forum (TNF) meeting in a bid to pressurise government to set US dollar pegged wages owing to the obtaining economic challenges.
The unions vowed not to return to the platform unless government and employers agreed to their demands.
However, speaking to NewZimbabwe.com Saturday, Mavima said the stance by workers’ representatives frustrated current efforts to strengthen social dialogue in the country.
Zimbos see gloomy 2021
BY NIZBERT MOYO/MOSES MATENGA/LORRAINE MUROMO
ZIMBABWEANS are not enthused about the New Year, 2021, and see no improvement in the social, economic and political problems that bedevilled the country throughout 2020.
Most people entered January 2020 with the fresh hope that usually accompanies a new year, and resolutions that were left to the gods.
Little did they knew that a new virus was percolating across the other side of the globe that would have a tremendous impact on so many aspects of lives.
Since those early days, attitudes have changed, with many individuals reporting that 2020 has been the worst year of their lives and with the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of abating slightly more than a year after the first case was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, most people see no light at the end of a dark tunnel.
Under fire AirZim capitulates
BY SHAME MAKOSHORI
UNDER fire Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) administrator, Reggie Saruchera buckled under pressure on Monday and rehired 300 workers fired by the airline under controversial circumstances five years ago,
NewsDay Business can reveal.
Saruchera’s dramatic summersault came a week after his office had told our sister paper,
Zimbabwe Independent that AirZim had no capacity to reappoint them following their landmark Supreme Court victory delivered on December 7. The workers responded by slapping him with multiple charges spanning from “gross maladministration, incompetence, mismanagement and wrongful and illegal deprivation” of a total of $100 million in unpaid salaries over five years.
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