THE work boycott by unionized lecturers and other workers at the Copperbelt University (CBU) in Kitwe yesterday entered day-two.
The unionized employees, who downed tools on Monday over delayed salaries for September, have vowed not to resume work until they are paid their September salaries by management.
A check around CBU campus by the Times in the morning found students conducting self studies in groups with a number of lecture rooms deserted.
CBU Academics Union (CBUAU) acting general secretary Willie Ngosa said the union members had resolved to withhold their labour for as long as their September salaries were not paid.
Mr Ngosa said the members who were unanimous in their resolve to withdraw labour on Monday when they held a general meeting, would only get back to work upon being paid the September salaries.
“Member on the academic side will only get back to work when they are paid their September salaries,” Mr Ngosa said.
As of Monday, CBU management only had raised K4.8 million with a shortfall of K10 million required to pay September salaries.
Mr Ngosa said CBU management, however, was not sure of the date when Government was going to make available that money to the institution.
It was on this basis that the lecturers and other unionized employees resolved to down tools.
Effort to get Education Minister Michael Kaingu over the matter failed as his mobile phone went unanswered while his permanent secretary Patrick Nkanza was not in position to comment as he was on the road travelling from Chinsali to Lusaka by press time.
What’s gonna happen to their October salaries? Are they gonna be paid pro-rata?
Where is Hon Gorilla to issue his now famous “with immediate effect”TANTRUM.
MEANWHILE OUR SELFISH PRESIDENT WHO JUST WASTED $300000 ON A TOURIST TRIP TO NEWYORK HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS CRISIS. WE TOLD YOU 2MONTHS AGO THIS ISSUE WOULD RESURFACE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AND TODAY HERE WE ARE. THE ONLY WAY LUNGU AND HIS WASTEFUL CABINET WILL SHOW ANY FININCIAL DISCIPLINE IS IF THE DONORS PRESSURE THEM. EVEN OUR GENEROUS PARTNERS WILL SOON START TO WITHDRAW THE HELP WE ARE GETTING. WITH THIS KIND OF MISMANAGEMENT I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED. VERY USELESS GOVERNMENT AND I HOPE ALL YOU LUNGUSSUPPORTERS ARE SUFFERING THE MOST. WE ARE ALL SUFFERING BECAUSE OF FOOLISHNESS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR NOTHING. I HOPE YOU LEARN YOUR LESSONS NEXT TIME TAKE YOUR VOTE SERIOUSLY. NOT JUST VOTING CHIMPWENA!
MEANWHILE OUR SELFISH PRESIDENT WHO JUST WASTED $300000 ON A TOURIST TRIP TO NEWYORK HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS CRISIS. WE TOLD YOU 2MONTHS AGO THIS ISSUE WOULD RESURFACE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AND TODAY HERE WE ARE. THE ONLY WAY LUNGU AND HIS WASTEFUL CABINET WILL SHOW ANY FININCIAL DISCIPLINE IS IF THE DONORS PRESSURE THEM. EVEN OUR GENEROUS PARTNERS WILL SOON START TO WITHDRAW THE HELP WE ARE GETTING. WITH THIS KIND OF MISMANAGEMENT I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED. VERY USELESS GOVERNMENT AND I HOPE ALL YOU LUNGUSSUPPORTERS ARE SUFFERING THE MOST. WE ARE ALL SUFFERING BECAUSE OF FOOLISHNESS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR NOTHING. I HOPE YOU LEARN YOUR LESSONS NEXT TIME TAKE YOUR VOTE SERIOUSLY. NOT JUST VOTING CHIMPWENA! PF WAAWAAA!!!!
MEANWHILE OUR SELFISH PRESIDENT WHO JUST WASTED $300000 ON A TOURIST TRIP TO NEWYORK HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS CRISIS. WE TOLD YOU 2MONTHS AGO THIS ISSUE WOULD RESURFACE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AND TODAY HERE WE ARE. THE ONLY WAY LUNGU AND HIS WASTEFUL CABINET WILL SHOW ANY FININCIAL DISCIPLINE IS IF THE DONORS PRESSURE THEM. EVEN OUR GENEROUS PARTNERS WILL SOON START TO WITHDRAW THE HELP WE ARE GETTING. WITH THIS KIND OF MISMANAGEMENT I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED. VERY USELESS GOVERNMENT AND I HOPE ALL YOU LUNGU SUPPORTERS ARE SUFFERING THE MOST. WE ARE ALL SUFFERING BECAUSE VOTING LIKE MORONS THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR NOTHING. I HOPE YOU LEARN YOUR LESSONS NEXT TIME TAKE YOUR VOTE SERIOUSLY. NOT JUST VOTING CHIMPWENA! PF WAAWAAA!!!!
You sound quite knowledgeable, but why do you write everything in capital letters? It is difficult to read ba Loadist!
..I propose that we enact a deliberate policy that will ensure that from permanent secretaries upward… ministers and the likes must be the last govt officers to get paid after all the civil servants have been paid…infact inclusive of district commissioners who in my opinion are just a cost burden on govt coffers….you can’t have deputy ministers receiving salaries on time while salaries for lecturers with traceable and tangible production line results are delayed and yet they all get the remunerations from the same pot…