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Policy analyst clash with ZCTU over Special Economic Zone Bill
13 Aug 2016 at 09:36hrs | Views
A Policy Analyst Butler Tambo has clashed with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions over its move to challenge the implementation of the Special Economic Zones.
He said he got Whatsapp messages some of these bulk ones saying ZCTU wants to demonstrate against the Special Economic Zones Bill on the 20th of August 2016 and want the President not to sign it into law even though it has gone through both houses of parliament.
"The organisation argues that because the Bill suspends the operationalisation of the labour Act in SEZs then it will lead to slave labour," Tambo said.
"Honestly ZCTU in a Zimbabwe where there is more than 85% unemployment what labour rights do you still represent since people are either loafers or vendors. If the Bill soon to become SEZ Act can create employment so let us have it main thing is let us get people into those factories first and foremost and stop being a country of vendors then worry about labour rights later we are too deep in poverty as a country to worry about such niceties and luxuries like labour rights."
He said who exactly is ZCTU serving considering the only real workers are Civil Servants and a few parastatals,a few corporate and a large NGO sector that is left of Zimbabwe.Such poor relevance seeking is nauseating.
"I for one championed and even wrote extensively in support of SEZ and believe this is the best way to go for a struggling economy like ours," he said.
He said he got Whatsapp messages some of these bulk ones saying ZCTU wants to demonstrate against the Special Economic Zones Bill on the 20th of August 2016 and want the President not to sign it into law even though it has gone through both houses of parliament.
"The organisation argues that because the Bill suspends the operationalisation of the labour Act in SEZs then it will lead to slave labour," Tambo said.
"Honestly ZCTU in a Zimbabwe where there is more than 85% unemployment what labour rights do you still represent since people are either loafers or vendors. If the Bill soon to become SEZ Act can create employment so let us have it main thing is let us get people into those factories first and foremost and stop being a country of vendors then worry about labour rights later we are too deep in poverty as a country to worry about such niceties and luxuries like labour rights."
He said who exactly is ZCTU serving considering the only real workers are Civil Servants and a few parastatals,a few corporate and a large NGO sector that is left of Zimbabwe.Such poor relevance seeking is nauseating.
"I for one championed and even wrote extensively in support of SEZ and believe this is the best way to go for a struggling economy like ours," he said.
Source - Byo24News
