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Zimbabwe: UNI's ILO Complaint on Freedom of Association
Union Network International (UNI)
April 26, 2004

http://www.union-network.org/solidarity

UNI has submitted an official complaint to the ILO Director General, about the Zimbabwe Government's violations of the ILO core principles. Lovemore Matombo, President of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and of UNI affiliate, Communications & Allied Services Workers' Union (CASWUZ), was dismissed from his employment in Zimpost after attending the Congress of the Organisation of African Trade Unions in Khartoum (Sudan) on 5-11 January 2004, in his position as ZCTU president.

In the complaint Philip Jennings, UNI General Secretary said "Lovemore Matombo is being victimised for his trade union activities and that his dismissal has been carried out on totally spurious grounds and cannot be justified". The complaint has now been referred to the Committee on Freedom of Association.

Many have already sent protest messages on this matter. This can be done from UNI Solidarity web page at http://www.union-network.org/uniindep.nsf/ProtestLovemoreCASWUZ?openform

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