Fresh factory strike looms
MASERU – SIX trade unions say they will down tools next Friday to press Labour Minister Moshe Leoma to gazette a new minimum wage for factory workers.
The strike will be a follow-up to one they held two weeks ago in the Thetsane Industrial Area where three workers were shot and injured by the riot police.
The unions say they will petition Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro and Leoma to address their grievances.
Speaking at a press conference in Maseru on Tuesday, , who is the Secretary General of the National Clothing Textile and Allied Workers Union (NACTWU), said they will not back off until their grievances are addressed.
From now on, Presidet Piñera “will be an ornament” at La Moneda, said Deputy Pamela Jiles.
Chile s Constitutional Court (TC) rejected on Tuesday a request by the government of Sebastián Piñera seeking to disapprove of a constitutional reform that Congress passed into law for a third withdrawal of 10 per cent of the pension funds.
In a plenum 7-3 vote, the TC did not accept the challenge for unconstitutionality and thus cleared the way for final parliamentary approval of the bill which seems inevitable following the Senate s green light last week.
In other words, the only way the third withdrawal of 10 per cent from pension fund accounts can only be stopped if Piñera chooses to veto it, which many at this point see as political suicide.
Three factory workers shot at a demonstration Three factory workers shot at a demonstration
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IN another brazen show of police heavy-handedness, officers in Maseru shot at protesters with rubber bullets at the Thetsane industrial area leaving three hospitalised.
The three injured men were rushed to Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital where they are being treated.
The victims were part of a group of protesters who gathered at the factories yesterday morning to demand salary increments. Hundreds of factory workers yesterday downed tools and blocked roads in the area prompting the police to fire rubber bullets to disperse them.
National police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Mpiti Mopeli said the police had no option but to fire rubber bullets at the protestors as they were blocking other employees from entering their companies’ premises.
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