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Zimbabwe teachers vow to fight on after High Court setback
Teachers in Zimbabwe are set to boycott the National Joint Negotiation Council (NJNC) following a High Court ruling that dismissed their application for improved working conditions. The joint applicat...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:17hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers get paltry US$20 wage hike
Teachers unions have declared a three-day strike starting this Wednesday in a bid to press for better wages after government recently offered a paltry US$20 increase on monthly salaries for civil serv...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers call for job action over salaries
THE Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Unions, (Fozeu), has called for an immediate job action starting from tomorrow after teachers declared incapacitation amid rising inflation and cost of living....Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers meet minister over poor pay
UNIONS representing teachers on Monday met Primary and Secondary Education minister, Torerai Moyo, over their grievances including their demands for a US$1 200 monthly salary.The educators are...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers meet minister over poor salaries
UNIONS representing teachers on Monday met Primary and Secondary Education minister, Torerai Moyo, over their grievances including their demands for US$1 200 monthly salaries.The educators are...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's civil servants' US$300 addition 'unfairly' deducted
Public sector workers affiliated with the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) have expressed dissatisfaction with the government's decision to implement substantial deduction...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants threaten September 26 wage strike
Federations representing civil servants in Zimbabwe have threatened to call for a strike starting Monday next week if government does not fulfil its promises to review wages.The Amalgamated Ru...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants issue 10-day ultimatum
CIVIL servants yesterday gave government a 10-day ultimatum to increase their salaries or face a crippling strike. They made the threats after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube failed to fulfil his August...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Educators in Zimbabwe mull week-long strike
TEACHERS have announced plans to embark on a week-long industrial action beginning June 27 to press for a salary hike in the face of the ever rising cost of living.The Federation of Zimbabwe E...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'5th COVID-19 wave brewing'
LOCAL health experts have warned of a brewing fifth wave of COVID-19 following a spike in new cases in schools since the beginning of the first term nearly two weeks ago.According to latest st...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Striking teachers' resilience shocks Mnangagwa's government
CABINET was on Tuesday shocked by striking teachers' disregard for its threats to suspend them and their decision to continue on industrial action since schools opened on February 7.Speaking t...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers push for umbrella body
TEACHERS unions have accused government of deliberately delaying the formal registration of their umbrella body, Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Union (Fozeu) as part of a plot to keep them divided....Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Teachers down tools
HUNDREDS of teachers yesterday downed tools to launch their 12-day strike over poor salaries and conditions of service, but government claimed that the protest was largely unheeded.Teachers un...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'favouritism' slammed
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of dividing teachers by ignoring concerns of other teachers while sympathetic to Zanu-PF aligned teachers onl...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers fume over pay hike
THE Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has accused the Apex Council of conniving with government to frustrate negotiations for a salary increment for civil servants after the authorities a...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Teachers give notice to strike
THE education sector is set to suffer another heavy blow after teachers and State University employees gave notice yesterday to embark on a nationwide industrial action starting Monday to press for be...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teacher unions demand plan for opening of schools
Teachers' unions under the Federation of Zimbabwe Education Unions (FOZEU) have called upon government to plan and engage them ahead of the opening of schools for this year.FOZEU demands sever...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
PTUZ moves to break away from Apex Council
THE Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has renewed its lobby on other unions to form an umbrella body of the educators that can directly negotiate with government on working conditions ins...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimta, PTUZ in ugly fallout
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) and Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) are engaged in a war of words emanating from whether or not to engage in collective bargaining with their em...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 16:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt divides teachers
Teachers are divided over whether or not to engage in collective bargaining with their employer under the Apex Council - the umbrella body for all civil servants.Zimbabwe has five main unions ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 13:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Third term opens as Nation transit from fear to acceptance
The hullabaloo of the inconsequential routine rituals of elections is now over. The political elites find themselves on different polar ends, the citizens are petrified and are slowly accepting the ne...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 15:11hrs | | by ARTUZ
Teachers hail Mnangagwa
TEACHERS have joined the chorus in praising the new political dispensation led by President Mnangagwa for creating a free environment that allows citizens freedom of expression without inhibition....Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 10:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
38 years of independence: Reflections from Zimbabwe's education sector
This article originally appeared in the Zimbabwe Communist Party quarterly journal 'Vanguard' Vol.2 Issue 5 (1st May 2018) Zimbabwe commemorated 38 years of Independence at a water-shed m...Published: 17 May 2018 at 10:22hrs | | by Obert Masaraure - National President of ARTUZ
Letter to the Editor Teacher should reconsider their mass action
Dear Editor, Teachers are some of the hard working people under some of the most difficult conditions. They are known to be the learned people in our society and community and due respect shou...Published: 14 May 2018 at 13:25hrs | | by Concerned Parent Gift Mashoko
Government, teachers clash
Government yesterday ordered a few teachers' unions agitating for a strike next week to channel their grievances through the Apex Council, a body that brings together all civil servants organisations....Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers divided over strike
SHARP divisions have rocked teachers' unions involved in negotiations for better working conditions, with some reportedly declaring a deadlock and calling for a crippling industrial action.The...Published: 09 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teachers reject paltry 10% pay hike
TEACHERS yesterday reportedly rejected a paltry 10% salary hike offered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, but agreed to continue with the negotiations aimed at averting a potentially cripp...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers dismiss salary hike reports
TEACHERS have dismissed reports that the government haS awarded them a salary hike, and vowed to go ahead with their planned strike action when schools open for the second term tomorrow.In a s...Published: 07 May 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Give negotiations a chance, Govt urges teachers
Government has implored teachers not to participate in any "unlawful" and "highly premature" strike that is being called for by some of the teacher union leaders, saying they should "give negotiations...Published: 05 May 2018 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt threatens teachers
Teachers in public schools are determined to down tools next week, setting themselves on a collision course with government which described the planned job action as illegal.Unions told the Da...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government implores teachers to negotiate
Government has implored teachers not to participate in any "unlawful" and "highly premature" strike that is being called by some of the teacher union leaders, saying they should "give negotiations a c...Published: 03 May 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers gang up against govt
Defiant teachers have ganged up against government, declaring that they will not be intimidated, following threats that those who will down tools will be dismissed the same way nurses were.In ...Published: 02 May 2018 at 11:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers threaten strike over pay
Just days after the nurses' strike ended, educators in Zimbabwe are threatening to put up their own fight as soon as schools open if government does not give them a pay rise and a review of rural-base...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 22:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers snub Mnangagwa
VARIOUS teachers' unions falling under the newly-formed Federation of Zimbabwe Educators' Unions (Fozeu) have snubbed a consultative meeting organised by the government to address their grievances, sa...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers' unions form federation
TEACHERS' unions in the country have come together to form the Federation of Zimbabwe Educators' Unions (Fozeu) as they up the ante in their push for improved working conditions for teachers.T...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 20:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
ARTUZ hails FOZEU demo and strike position
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) hails the spirit of solidarity and cooperation shown by the leading unions in the education sector organized under the banner of Federation of Zimb...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 14:59hrs | | by ARTUZ
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