performing at 20 percent capacity and the current chaos will further worsen this situation. The price cuts are only a temporary measure that will give false hope to the multitude of Zimbabweans. Labour notes that even though prices have been cut, most workers still cannot afford to buy the goods let alone travel to work on conventional transport as they are earning far below the Poverty Datum Line (PDL) that stood at $5,5 million as at May 2007.
Of concern also is the fact that shelves in most shops are now empty. This will force workers to spend precious time hunting for basic commodities with the little money they have, instead of putting the time to production at work.
The ZCTU demands that government deals with root causes of the economic rot and not offer piecemeal solutions that in the long run will cost the country greatly. We are inclined to believe that the government has failed because over the past few years it has failed to come up with any meaningful solutions to the crisis we are facing. Stop –gap measures have been employed, yet people continue to suffer. Labour is saying that it is high time we stop running the country on stop-gap measures and on the basis of piecemeal political projects. Successful countries run their countries on the basis of sustainable programmes.
To this end, we urge the workers of Zimbabwe to prepare for national action, action that is meant to break the chains of this slavery
10 July 2007
Wellington Chibebe
SECRETARY GENERAL
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