Public service workers in Choma have resolved to go on strike next Monday, June 1,2009, to press government to conclude long-awaited salary negotiations with their unions.
The government workers have also asked their national union leaders to resign from their positions if they have failed to represent them adequately in the on-going negotiations with their employer.
This is according to a joint statement released to ZANIS in Choma today by Civil Servants and Allied Workers’ Union of Zambia branch Secretary, Peter Phiri, and National Union of Public Service Workers branch chairperson Macford Chiboola.
The two union leaders said their members have noted with regret the way government has been using delaying tactics in the on-going negotiations for improved salaries and conditions of service.
They said this is a breach of the Industrial and Labour Relations Act CAP 269 which stipulates the time limit in which the negotiations are supposed to be concluded.
The unions have demanded that government should consider giving a block figure in awarding increments and not percentages.
The civil servants are demanding not less than K 450,000 across the board as salary increment with not less than K 400,000 as housing allowance, adding that all outstanding housing allowance arrears must be cleared not later than June 30, 2009.
Teachers in the district have been on go slow since May 18.
ZANIS
yaba!
Yazanda.
I said it. more are still coming on board.Mufuna mukazidya mweka nyamasoya.
Ya Banda mwatuse banya.
Zambian must stop this political mastu***btion from contuining,nationalwide strike and demand Rupiahs immediate removal from office, things are really getting out hand.
wapya munzi achisya,yabija makani.
Ya kakana ooooh
Ba Banda, what do you have to say for yourself? Kabani bambo.
Zambians do you want to dislodge the government or the MMD.Tension among civil servants and country wide at large.Ministers,party cadres and state house do something before it worsens.Increments on ministers,parliamentarians and president were done in a hurry, president do the same or step down or call for national dialogue.