Workers Fume Over "Unilateral Decisions" On Salaries
Government workers have expressed anger over the government’s alleged unilateralism on matters such as salaries and condition of service.
This came out at a discussion forum during the National Citizens Convention organised by the Citizens Manifesto and running under the theme, “Understanding the Crisis in the Public Sector and What needs to be done; Perspectives from Trade Unions.”
Nurses, doctors and teachers’ representatives said the National Joint negotiating Forum (NJNC) had ceased to be a genuine collective bargaining platform accusing it of being used by the government to intimidate workers.
The President of the Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union, Robert Chiduku, accused the Health Services Board (HSB) in particular of being used as an intimidation tool.
Right now, the HSB the top leadership is chanting militaristic directives and commands passing unilateral decisions. Nurses were on flexible duties because the employer was failing to meet our salary needs but we are now subject to unilateral and onesided directives from the HSB.
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However, the labour that sustains the hospitals is ours and when we work we expect to be remunerated accordingly. We are not here to work for peanuts. The current situation where we have become a laughing stock of the country is not acceptable.
The allegations were, however, dismissed by HSB deputy director public relations, Tryphine Dzvukutu who claimed HSB “is an independent board which makes its own decisions guided by its Act.”
This comes when salary negotiations between the government and workers’ representatives have so far failed to establish a long-lasting solution to the stand-off between the worker and the employer.
Government has announced that it will strike-off the pay sheet all workers, teachers in particular, who embarked on salary protests this year.
More: Daily News
