The Government negotiating team and Public Service Workers’ union representatives on the ongoing salary/wage negotiations have agreed on a 15 percent salary/wage award to public service workers.
Government has also announced that the signing of all collective agreements is expected to be concluded by this Friday, 12 June, 2009 and has since urged all public service workers to continue working normally.
Chief Government Spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha disclosed last evening in a media statement made available to the media, that the Bargaining unit comprising the public service workers’ union representatives and the Government negotiating team briefed Secretary to the Cabinet Joshua Kanganja that an agreement had been reached on a 15 percent salary increment to public service workers.
Lieutenant General Shikapwasha who is also Information and Broadcasting Services Minister said this was revealed to Dr Kanganja at a meeting held at Cabinet Office yesterday.
Rev Shikapwasha said considerable progress has been made towards finalisation of an agreement on the ongoing salary and wage negotiations for Public Service Workers and that during the meeting, the Bargaining Unit agreed to constitute a Joint Technical Committee to deal with the outstanding issues on housing allowance.
”In view of this positive development, the government is urging all public service workers to continue working normally”, said Rev Shikapwasha.
Public Service workers have gone on strike across the country paralyzing operations at hospitals and schools.
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Ichimoona. You think someone can survive in Zambia with 15%. Please civil servants, continue with your strike and get what is due to you. You u are waiting for K480m plus your k25m/mth salary and over 10 more allowances and you want your friends to get K100pin as increment. VIVA STRIKE
it’s too little let them continue with the strike.what percentage did you guys in cabinet and parliament award youselves?
Let not these jokers take you for granted, teachers and nurses, actually you’re more educated than most of the MP’s, one MP was asked in the past to clarify the meaning of vulnerable, he faile Hon. Maj……ta. K480 Million as gratity when people are suffering. Teachers and Nurses please do not elect clowns as union leaders. How can they agree on 15%? This is absolute lunacy on their part or have they been given something? Even then chuck them out of leadership, don’t give up. Next pressure will follow these same big nosed politicians with no shame! Abash political mast…b ..tion.!!!!
Why does it always have to be this way? Can’t people just get a raise without drastic measures?
Why shud the unions accept these peanuts? Let civil servants continue with the strike. Politicians have taken for a ride.
Efyo twibila.How do u increase by 15%. Mwalilwala ayi?
From yesterday’s reports this 15% increament was rejected by civil servants across the country. Rev Shika, the battle is not yet over, tough luck.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that a 15% increment is as good as nothing.Do teachers & nurses have to go on strike in order for them to be heard by these people.This is absolutely pathetic!!!!!
Ukushishita bateacher. You are used living in poverty you must value yourself 15%. My small popie gets k1.7m health allowance better than you. Countinue suffering you will enjoy in heaven and as we enjoy both.
is Shikapwasha also Rev?
……….. Ha ha ha ….15% is utter nonsence, you give yourselves hefty allowances and salaries at the expense of poor health workers and poor ZEDIANS……..you even go to the extent of reaping more in the name of NDABA and NCC….. Wake up.
Dont think the workers will agree with this especially health workers, dont see them getting back to work anytime soon.
So in Zambia to enjoy and get increments, gratuities without fuss, you have to be a Politicians in parley or minister of some kind. It’s rediculous.
#9 Do not insult the teachers am a product of them ,perhaps you dropped from the sky. let RB respond to the calls of the teachers and nurses .
#14. You think RB will solve this problems? If he was serious with sorting out this problem, he was not going to go to SA or to watch football. He will just plead with people on strike thats all. Let him get the $53bn for mobile hospitals and pay teachers and health workers.
Forward with the nation, forward with the strike.
What is wrong with these unions? What is 15%? please contiue the strike until these chimps in gov give you a decent increament.
#15 I guess you are right. I ,keep on wondering /asking myself who is the acting President in the absence of Nyama soya the traveler (RB)?
I don’t know where we are heading to in Zambia. What has MP done which justifies them getting K480m as mid term gratuity and then more than K1bn at the eand of the term. What do these politicians think. One week in office, they awarded themselves salaries up to K35m per month and yet they want their friends to get K0.6m per month.
God help us
Most govt workers get slightly over a million; 15% is an additional 150pin… that is peanuts for Christ’s sake! This is more reason why people resort to plundering. The govt must be the first to realise this. It means that people will continue to pilfer slowly but surely. Give the public workers a decent increment of at least 95% then everyone will be happy. Housing allowance must commensurate with the obtaining local rates (where one stays) for each worker.
What is the home take for these civil servants ? Maybe we also need to know what this percentage translates to. More info please
#22. My wife is a teacher in Chipata and take home is K800pin and housing alllowance is K100pin. By the way its “take home” not “home take”
The system is rotten. Why are politicians better paid than professionals? How can you inspire high productivity and good service delivery when workers are demotivated due to poor salaries and slave conditions of service? The K480m midterm gratuity is an outrageous cruelty. If we have this kind of money, then all professionals should be engaged on contract so that they can benefit from gratuity. How many doctors, nurses, engineers, architects, teachers, could we possibly retain if we were giving them such incentives? We got to be serious.
Its all about ANIMAL FARM, Mulongoti is at it again if civil seravnts are awarded 15% salary increment then same should apply to Ministers and MPs yet the same chaps awarded themselves hefty benefits and they are in the process of getting graduity of K480m each. That money intended for graduity should be channeld to addressing various serious issues affecting the general populace. It all greedness at the highest level. When it come to money matters all beneficiries be they in Govt or opposition they all zee. Double standards.
Also this thing of percentages does not make sence. Sikapwasha was urguing that even Ministers got 15%. What sikapwasha should remember is that 15% of K16m is enormous when you compare with 15% of K800. So teacher and health worker should demand for a lump sum figure of more than K1.5m as salary increament and K.5m as housing allowance
Fellow workers, I know how it feels to be denied salaries that are satisfactory and due. If 15% has been awarded and your unions agree to it, just know that they’ve been paid hefty amounts to shut ’em up. But for you, the struggle in this society continues.
Govt, you know the attitude of an underpaid employee. Low productivity. Somebody on the blog stated WAYE(Work As You Earn). This is not healthy. Zambia needs a motivated workforce to develop. Workers are heavy taxpayers and thus they deserve fair pay. The outcome of your INDABA is worthless if this is the direction you wish to embark on. Don’t give dear workers SLAVE wages. Your fiscal and monetory policies are a joke and you are a let down Govt. SOLIDARITY TO WORKERS..VIVA!!!
What is motivation for workers kapoko way you say?
If our leaders have failed to give their workers what they are demanding then maybe also their representatives must be questioned for agreeing on what their members are denying. Brown envelopes at work.
Allan Patan said in cry the beloved country book , that nothing is ever quiet except with fools, Zambians are not fools . Give the Nurses and the Teachers what they demand .
Even a billionaire sends a child to school , to be taught by a person called a teacher. And when that child has an accident at school goes to a hospital . Meets doctors and nurses .
They do not go to parliament / House of commons / senate
Goodmorning bloggers.
15% salary increment for public servants is a joke compared to the hefty warranties and goodwill payments that senior govt officials like Shikapwasha himself get.
lets appresciate teachers. abviously pipo like big mpuno bali ifikopo and teachers modified him. thats how he managed to get a job in the army.
Bakafundisha please put your choco panshi. You are not employed to be good samaritans.
Cilvil servants and ministers are all equal. Like misters , they marry so do civil servants, they have husbands so do civil servants, they have wives so do civil servants, they have children so do civil servants,they want to enjoy life so do civil servants. Now why should misters get K30milion per month and a teacher 0.8milion per month? Civil servants we plead with you, listen dont go back to work. They are raping our money through the indaba, NCC, gratuity, hearses, mobile hospitals etc.They have money and these money should be shared equally. VIVA STRIKE.
15% is a mockery to underpaid civil servants. An amount such as K800,000 salary and 80% housing allowance can make sense. Let the union leaders do their work. Above all, who initiate %ges? %ges are a nuisanse when it comes to low paid employees. Viva strikes. K480m Plus another in next 2 years is a joke 2 people do nothing apart from reading documents which were written a long time ago.
Problem with our leaders is that they are the only humans and the rest of us ca survive on grass and wild fruits. I had relative in GRZ who could pay his servant only 1/4 of what the GRZ was paying him as domestic allowance and pocketed the rest for his pleasures.
In my opinion which wont be popular 15% is ok for now its better than nothing you have to wait and see how it filters down to the public service employees. I dont think anyone would want a rewrite of the budget of which 50% covers salaries. You can not expect to get paid money that solves all your life problems that just doesnt happen even those with billions of dollars want more and they do that by sucrificing what they have in hope of doubling it.
So my friendds make use of what you get paid dont expect you utility bills to be paid in full including rent so you remain with change on top of you salary
CAUSALITY- ladies and gentlemen.
The Cause
– economical hardships, meaningless and mockery wages and heavy taxations, wider gap between rich and poor.
The Effect
– uninspired worker force, desire to engage in private businesses thus stealing company time, low productivity in workplaces, poverty stricken families, empty stomachs, lack of concentration at work , then absenteeism , hatred for Govt, finally STRIKES and more STRIKES and More STRKES And More…AND MORE. If forced to work on low salaries, more and more lack of interest to work. Crippled economy and low spirited country men and women. Then No country to talk about.
Now, this is the principle of CAUSALITY. In matrix terms it is simply Cause and Effect. We are all victims of CAUSALITY. Simple phenomenon.
115*my current salary/100=my new salary. If i get K1m my salary increameant will be K150pin. BA TEACHER ………… The loss (the country) our children are making is not worth k150pin, Worse people dying hospital. We wont condone another strike from you. Kindly apply your negotiating skills to the fullest. Mind you the End must justify the Means (you choose). The same applies those pmyers that be. We want to have healthy well informed leaders in 20yrs time. Please dont cause more deaths and harm to our families we are already over stretched.
Mpuno!
I wonder what has happened to the MMD, they r out of touch with reality. No one is going back for work until they get at least 25% increments. SHREK leaves his house is on fire & goes to drink tea at the neigbors house hoping that by the time he comes back the fire will have been quenched. Luckily for him, this in not West Africa where the army is adventurous!
15% increment is a mockery
what is this,ati 15% i still cant believe it.the bwezani administration is only aiming at making themselves richer
shaka and his nose,lol
#9 u are an i.d.i.o.t
wat agrement have u made with them.it waz an agrement btwn ba pwasha n his budies,pwasha’s nose lol………………………………………………………………………………………………lol
Pa zed we need may be Dictator kapena vintu vingayeseko. Twachula NABOZA ba boma
15% awe kwena