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NHA employees petition over 12 month’s unpaid salaries

- By NATION REPORTER

FURIOUS National Housing Authority (NHA) unionised employees have petitioned the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) over their 12 months unpaid salaries while still demanding the dismissal of their current management.

Speaking when he presented the petition on behalf of the aggrieved employees at ZCTU headquarte­rs in Lusaka yesterday, Zambia United Local Authoritie­s Workers Union (ZULAWU) Chairperso­n, Joseph Shakantu revealed that he was allegedly sacked by NHA management for having written to President Edgar Lungu to intervene in the plight of his colleagues.

Mr Shakantu said he had no option but to write to President Lungu to intervene after exhausting all relevant channels of grievance.

“It is in public domain that workers have suffered enough at the hands of NHA management. They last got their salaries in March, 2017. It has been 12 months now since they were paid but they are still going for work," Mr Shakantu said.

And ZCTU Secretary General, Cosmas Mukuka, who received the petition, said the Labour movement will also pe- tition Minister of Housing and Infrastruc­ture Developmen­t, Ronald Chitotela, to intervene in the matter.

Mr Mukuka however appealed to the aggrieved employees to be calm and patient and not engage in illegal strikes to air their grievances.

“What you have done is legal. You have the right to protest but don't stone or beat anybody," Mr Mukuka advised.

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