Budget a -slap in the face says ZCTU (14-12-06)

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E – Zimbabwe’s umbrella trade union body, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, ZCTU, has said it would now seek to ballot its members on strike action following the intransigence of government in meeting labour’s demands for higher wages, lower taxes and providing affordable HIV/AIDS drugs.


ZCTU president Lovemore Matombo said Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa’s 2007 national budget was a “slap in the face for workers” and that the minister had not taken into consideration workers demands for better pay amid Zimbabwe’s skyrocketing hyperinflation.


ZCTU wanted to peg the minimum wage at par with the Poverty Datum Line (PDL), currently Z$208,714.84. The union is also seeking reviews in transport and housing allowances.


Matombo said ZCTU was not prepared to make any concessions on the minimum wage because “the PDL is changing almost on a weekly basis and it needs to be rectified now before the situation gets out of hand.”



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