Rural Teachers Union in Zimbabwe (RTUZ) Protest To Force Gvt To Honour Pledges To Civil Servants

Rural Teachers Union in Zimbabwe (RTUZ)  Protest To Force Gvt To Honour Pledges To Civil Servants

Zimbabwe’s rural teachers say they will go on the streets today in an attempt to force the government to honour its dues and pledges to civil servants. If successful, this will be the second major sector to embark on mass action after unhappy public sector medical staff – including doctors and nurses – went on strike last week in protest at the government’s failure to pay them their December salaries. The Rural Teachers Union in Zimbabwe…

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‘Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) Statement On APEX Madness’

‘Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) Statement On APEX Madness’

The Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) is saddened by the outcome of the Apex Council meeting which collapsed amid petty jostling for posts and shameless political jockeying by the various yellow unions in the Public Service, the majority of whose leadership has sold their political souls for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver to the employer via the dreaded CIO. RTUZ did not attend today’s meeting as its leadership was accessing treatment after being…

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No Christmas Pay For Civil Servants Shows Mugabe’s Zanu PF Regime Is Stone Broke

No Christmas Pay For Civil Servants Shows Mugabe’s Zanu PF Regime Is Stone Broke

HARARE – The festive season has become a ginormous nightmare for the majority of civil servants as President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke administration is failing to pay them not just their promised end-of-year bonuses, but their December salaries as well. Under-pressure Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, had the unenviable task of announcing on Christmas Day, of all days, that most public servants would only receive their December pay – which was supposed to have been deposited into…

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