As the fire fighters continue demanding their salaries, the Fire Services Union of Zambia is disappointed that the Church has failed to voice out on the non payment of salaries to council workers for months now.
Union General Secretary Clement Mulenga says it is disappointing that the Church Mother Bodies have failed to criticize government over their failure to pay salaries.
Mr Mulenga said the Church must not always support the government even in the wrongs that the state is doing.
He said the church must be the champion of Justice and not to turn a blind eye to the sufferings of the Council workers in the country.
Mr Mulenga said it is disappointing that the only time the Church is heard in the country is when someone attacks the government.
He said the Church is the office of God and must be impartial and should never love wearth at the expense of the expense of agonizing souls.
Mr Mulenga said Government has continued to act wrongly including wrong dismissals to workers yet the church is quiet.
He said the Council Workers however still remain grateful to God that he will forget them even if people pretending to be God’s servants are quiet on issues affecting them.
“One wonders even the significance of the October 18 prayers when Leaders dont care about the welfare of the workers. I pray that the church won’t fear the ruling party or government but will fear God alone and uphold justice.
Good points. But does the church in Zambia ever voice out on wrongs these days? With this tough economy and a govt scared to even to mention the word economy, we are on our own. Every wise person should be worried about how they will survive this very very hash economy.
Very unfortunate. This is becoming such a feature in our country.
The nation’s resources havebbeen plundered greedy individuals. Those that sweat day and night are not even given scraps to feed thier families. The little money there is goes to cadres and other PF minions.
While our civil servants go on without pay, bowman lusambo is running around “donating” goods worth 1million! Where the devil did he get that money. Just yesterday he was a kaponya in ndola. Now he has 1million to donate? Zambia, i hope you can see where your money has gone. Civil servants, i hope you can see where your salaries have gone. Vote wisely in 2021, and be ready to protect your votes from rigging at all costs!
How can the so called “churches” speak about unpaid salaries for public servants when most of their churches are now campaigning platforms by politicians?
Anyway, how much is mealie meal today?
How is the economy performing today?
It seems to me that load shedding under the visionless PF & it’s bandits will never be of the past but present & future generations.
Next time try asking the minister for religious affairs & in relation to the price of mealie meal.
The question is, how much is mealie meal?
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Zambia faces no financial crisis, says Margaret Mwanakatwe. Hw safe are public assets in the hands of people not getting their pay as it falls due? But wht csn the church do? The workers hv a union and that’s that.
Journeyman: Yours is sober analysis, the kind I hv got used to from u. I hope u keep such high standards. If u lower them a rebuke from me will be in order.
Ba Mulenga you unions where ever you are, you have let down your members. Members make contributions to be represented, instead you leaders gain from the employers leaving members in the cold. It appears you have run out of ideals and you want the Church to do your flipping job. What happens if the Church fails? If indeed you have run of ideas, go back to your members and seek for ideas. You haven’t even declared a dispute, are you afraid, may be you got brown envelopes. Pull up your socks Ba Mulenga you draw your power from your MEMBERS & not the CHURCH.
Baliswamo kale…..they are now toothless. Sorry not even the POPE will help you on this.
Next time Vote wisely.
This Mulenga is a useless Unionist. A unionist must understand process of dealing with such matters. What about your ZCTU? What about the Labour Commisioner ? What about madam Nonde? Do you know how to declare a dispute? Do you know about the courts? Have you ever head of the word Strike?
Do your work Bwana ….The Church has nothing to d with your lack of understanding of labour matters.
Next twalaumfwa ati namuya ku nganga!!
YOU MUST FAST FOR FOURTY DAYS & FOURTY NIGHTS then the govt will pay. Leave the church out of this bwana
Why do your members still report for work after 4 months of no pay???
All the unions have failed workers in the country and need to be abolished. All they do is talk and never act. It’s utter folly to start running to the church to voice out what you unions are mandated to do. For me these unions that run to the church are simply conceding that they don’t know what to do about their jobs. Same goes to politicians that run to the church. The church has a different mandate, politicians have their own mandate, these useless unions have their own mandate as well, so don’t overburden the church with nonsense all the time simply because you have failed to do your job. The church has to do God’s work and not try to help kalaba or Kambwili or edgar or HH to win elections and neither is the church mandated to help the union achieve their goals.
Leave the union alone , these institutions are effective only in law abiding countries not a lawless country like ours. If government is at the forefront of not paying retirees and its workers how do you expect a union to force them. Our Government needs to lead by example next time unions educate your members to vote wisely not based on a song. You see now how they wasted their votes by choosing a heartless thief who doesn’t care about their welfare. Only he and a select few are enjoying while the rest suffer
China, problems of unions has nothing to with who is in GRZ. Bwana these UNIONS COMPROMISE THEMSELVES, by doning with employers. FTJ is the one who knew UNIONISM. When he became MR PRESIDENT he said, “let them make their small unions” this was to for go the one industry one union concept. Why? He new fragmentation of unions will kill their bargaining power. That is how weak unions are today. Unions eat with one hand with employers the other with employees. In the mines 1, 2, 3 unions. Its the same with other industries. These leaders have come to own property beyond their means. In short they are compromised