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By Staff Reporter THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has become the latest influential organisation to call for a comprehensive all-stakeholder dialogue to solve the country’s multi-faceted crisis. ZCTU president Peter Mutasa said the only way to find common ground and to pull the country lost in political and economic quagmire out of the woods, is through constant engagements, which entail trial and errors until the elusive magic wand to bring the country back on its rails is found. He made the call during his contribution to Public Policy Research Institute of Zimbabwe held unde...

Zimbabwe: ZCTU Joins Chorus for National Dialogue to End Zim’s Crisis Facebook March 10, 2021 The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has become the latest influential organisation to call for a comprehensive all-stakeholder dialogue to solve the country’s multi-faceted crisis. ZCTU president Peter Mutasa said the only way to find common ground and to pull the country lost in political and economic quagmire out of the woods, is through constant engagements, which entail trial and errors until the elusive magic wand to bring the country back on its rails is found. He made the call du...

Peter Mutasa - ZCTU-President CRACKS have emerged in the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) ahead of the labour body’s elective congress scheduled for December. Sources within the country’s largest labour representative body say two factions have emerged in the general council, the highest decision-making body in between congresses, as the battle for the control of the country’s largest labour body erupts. The battle has been politicised amid contested allegations that a rival camp linked to the ruling Zanu-PF is plotting to overthrow the Peter Mutasa-led executive. The rival fact...

By Alois Vinga THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has slammed government for poor Covid-19 social support measures highlighting that workers and ordinary citizens will emerge biggest losers after the country’s prolonged lockdown period. Government recently announced it had increased cash transfers to the vulnerable to the tune of $1 500 per month, up from $300. All pensioners are currently getting US$30 per month to cushion them from the Covid-19 lockdown shocks on the economy, among other measures. But speaking to NewZimbabwe.com Wednesday, ZCTU president Peter Mutasa described t...

It also brings into sharp focus the southern African nation’s human rights record. According to the ITUC documentation of violations of workers’ rights, Zimbabwe joined a bleak list of controversial nations such as Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Colombia, Egypt, Honduras, Kazakhstan, the Philippines and Turkey. “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. “Twenty-eight ZCTU members stil...