The union, which has in the past threatened to call strikes by workersto pressure employers to increase salaries, said a research it carriedshowed that an average family of six people required more than US$400for basic goods and services per month or more than four times theUS$100 civil servants and most workers are earning.
Between now and June we would expect businesses to adjust salaries andpay their workers the new minimum wage, ZCTU secretary generalWellington Chibebe said.
Workers have borne the brunt of Zimbabwe's economic crisis with manylosing jobs as companies downsized or closed shop altogether whilethose luck to be still holding a formal job have been forced to acceptpaltry salaries or risk retrenchment.
Many in the country had hoped a power-sharing government formed byPresident Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and DeputyPrime Minister Arthur Mutambara would ease the political situation andallow the country to emerge from its crisis.
But the unity government is facing immense difficulties raising cashand resources to kick start the economy with rich Western governmentsthat have the capacity to fund the Zimbabwe's recovery refusing toprovide support until they see evidence Mugabe is committed to genuinepower sharing and to implementing comprehensive political and economicreforms.
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