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Lecturers strike, demand meeting with Mugabe
10 Feb 2015 at 20:00hrs | Views
Lecturers at all the country's state universities have with immediate effect gone on strike over unpaid bonuses and January salaries.
They demanded to meet President Mugabe over their plight, saying negotiations with the government had failed to take off.
At a meeting held at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) today, the lecturers said they were disappointed that government had left them out when it paid other civil servants their annual bonuses.
Lecturers and non-teaching staff at the universities that include, NUST, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), Great Zimbabwe and Chinhoyi State Universities have vowed not to return to work until Government pays them the bonus and salary.
They agreed to go on strike each time the government failed to pay them on time, henceforth.
In a letter addressed to their employer, the lecturers said they could no longer afford to go to work as they had run out of money.
"Zimbabwe State university workers are incapacitated to report for their normal duties with immediate effect. In the future, the workers will not report for duty if their salaries are not paid by the end of each and every month. The government or employer must pay our 2014 bonuses forthwith," read part of the letter.
Lecturers said a delegation from the Zimbabwe State Universities Union of Academics (ZISUUA) on Friday met officials from the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development but there was no progress as the ministries were clueless about when they would receive their monies.
Contacted for comment, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Dr Washington Mbizvo said he was not aware lecturers had downed tools.
They demanded to meet President Mugabe over their plight, saying negotiations with the government had failed to take off.
At a meeting held at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) today, the lecturers said they were disappointed that government had left them out when it paid other civil servants their annual bonuses.
Lecturers and non-teaching staff at the universities that include, NUST, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), Great Zimbabwe and Chinhoyi State Universities have vowed not to return to work until Government pays them the bonus and salary.
They agreed to go on strike each time the government failed to pay them on time, henceforth.
In a letter addressed to their employer, the lecturers said they could no longer afford to go to work as they had run out of money.
"Zimbabwe State university workers are incapacitated to report for their normal duties with immediate effect. In the future, the workers will not report for duty if their salaries are not paid by the end of each and every month. The government or employer must pay our 2014 bonuses forthwith," read part of the letter.
Lecturers said a delegation from the Zimbabwe State Universities Union of Academics (ZISUUA) on Friday met officials from the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development but there was no progress as the ministries were clueless about when they would receive their monies.
Contacted for comment, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Dr Washington Mbizvo said he was not aware lecturers had downed tools.
Source - Byo24News
