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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: IPS:Zimbabwe:Nkomo Says No Re-Nego Labor Bill
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- "at a recent workers meeting in bulawayo, zctu president gibson
- sibanda called on the government to withdraw the labour bill which
- he said was in no way different from the colonial ''master and
- servant act'' which allowed employers to hire and fire workers as
- they wished.
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- Topic 201 IPS:Zimbabwe: Nkomo Says No
- hrcoord apc.labour 3:04 pm Sep 10, 1992
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- Subject: IPS:Zimbabwe: Nkomo Says No
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- Title: ZZIMBABWE: NKOMO SAYS NO RE-NEGOTIATION OF LABOUR BILL /
- ONE
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- bulawayo, sep 7 (ziana) -- public service, labour and social
- welfare minister john nkomo has said there will be no
- re-negotiation of the labour relations bill and he will therefore
- have no further discussions with labour union leaders regarding
- the legislation.
-
- in an interview with ziana, nkomo said he was now ''fed up'' with
- the leadership of the zimbabwe congress of trade unions (zctu) who
- were campaigning for the withdrawal of the bill.
-
- nkomo said the bill came to being after an agreement of terms by
- the tripartite committee which had representatives from the
- government, employers and workers unions.
-
- ''i am now fed up with the zctu and i am not going to meet them,
- especially over this bill,'' he said.
-
- the minister said there was no way the government could call for a
- re-negotiation of the bill which had been agreed upon by all
- parties concerned.
-
- at a recent workers meeting in bulawayo, zctu president gibson
- sibanda called on the government to withdraw the labour bill which
- he said was in no way different from the colonial ''master and
- servant act'' which allowed employers to hire and fire workers as
- they wished.
-
- sibanda said the zctu demands that the bill be sent back to the
- tripartite committee for re-negotiation.
-
- ''the bill has caused mass dismissal of workers without a wink
- from employers or the government,'' charged sibanda.
-
- to this, nkomo lashed back saying he was ''fed up with sibanda and
- his zctu'' and asserted that the labour movement had lost
- direction and its leaders had no more ideas to give to the
- workers.
-
- ''at one time i read in some newspaper that the government had
- agreed to meet zctu over the bill, that is all lies. all i said
- was that there is need for dialogue not specifically with zctu,''
- said nkomo.
-
- the zctu also alleged that the social dimension fund was now being
- distributed as part of drought relief, thereby defeating the
- purpose of setting up the fund which is supposed to benefit
- retrenched workers.
-
- to this nkomo retorted, ''how can that be? do you see sense in it?
- sibanda and his zctu must know that this world is not made of
- empty rhetoric and inapplicable theories.'' (end/ziana)
-