Back to Index

All workers should be paid in foreign currency
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)
November 21, 2008

Employers, government included, continue to take workers for granted. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions expresses concern over the recent 18 000 percent salary increment awarded to teachers.

Teachers are demanding that they be paid US$1 200. Awarding salary increments in local currency is no longer an option given the dollarization of the Zimbabwean economy. The education sector has been adversely affected by skills flight as a result of low remuneration. Our children have not been going to school since third term started but those in Grade 7, O' level and those doing Advanced level were required to write examinations despite the fact that they have not been learning since the beginning of the year.

Teachers have been on indefinite strike but there has been a deafening silence from 'government' and only piecemeal solutions are being offered. The ZCTU demands that all workers, teachers included, be paid their wages in foreign currency as the shops that workers buy from, sell their good in US$.

Workers from all industries will soon join teachers, nurses and doctors in national action as the situation has become unbearable. The ZCTU demands that all wages be paid in forex or the foreign currency shops are done away with, forthwith. Workers should prepare for national action, as we are now saying enough is enough.

Visit the ZCTU fact sheet

Please credit www.kubatana.net if you make use of material from this website. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License unless stated otherwise.

TOP