By Staff Reporter
A MINE workers group has bemoaned the ushering in of Chinese nationals into the country’s investment space, insisting the Asians were among the worst employers ever seen.
In a statement to mark Workers Day weekend, Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union General Secretary Justice Chinhema said the country’s Look East policy which ushered in Chinese investors into the country had brought its own nightmares.
Under then President Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe turned to Asia for new allies after its western friends had deserted the Harare administration for alleged rights abuses, poll theft and high-level corruption.
The epileptic power supply in the country may worsen if a threat by electricity workers to withdraw their services over insecurity in the country is carried out.
In a statement to mark Workers’ Day in Abuja, General Secretary of National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), Joe Ajaero, lamented rising death of members of the union in the course of doing their work.
“The safety of our workers who carry out maintenance works and man the stations in these restive areas is seriously threatened as some run into dens of bandits and kidnappers while navigating the bushes to repair and maintain faulty lines.
Cosatu is not perfect but ANC can learn few things from it - Ntshalintshali
By Itumeleng Mafisa
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Johannesburg - Tension and instability within the ANC have affected the struggle of workers in South Africa, says Cosatu general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali.
Ntshalintshali was speaking to The Star against the backdrop of a busy political weekend with the country celebrating Workersâ Day and ANC leaders set to meet to discuss the controversial step-aside rule which has created further division in the governing party.
He expressed dissatisfaction with the state of the alliance.
âThe leader of the alliance (the ANC) is embroiled in its own struggle in that context and . the whole alliance will be impacted one way or another.
by Bajan Reporter / May 3rd, 2021
In view of the International celebration of Workers, an occasion that is also referred to as Workers’ Day or Labor Day, third Vice President of the National Union of Public Workers,
Kimberley Agard, is publicly declaring her candidacy for the post of President in the upcoming general elections of the NUPW.
Joining with those who commemorate the historic struggles and gains made by the workers and the labor movement. Ms. Agard has indicated that the core of her and her team’s campaign messages will be based on several relevant features designed to enhance and re-elevate the NUPW to being the premier entity in the Trade Union Movement locally, regionally and internationally.
Workers, pensioners feel the pinch
BY MOSES MATENGA
WORKERS under the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) banner yesterday decried living standards in the country, which they described as “unbearable and terrible”, and worse than life during the tenure of the late former President Robert Mugabe.
On Saturday during Workers’ Day commemorations, President Emmerson Mnangagwa claimed that his government had ushered in a sense of optimism to the country’s workers compared to the Mugabe era.
However, ZCTU president Peter Mutasa quashed the claims saying Mnangagwa’s utterances showed that he was not in touch with reality.
“It is either the President is out of touch with the lived experiences of workers and the poor, or he is being misinformed. Life is terrible for workers and clearly the Mugabe era was far better for workers than this era,” Mutasa told