Daily Nation Newspaper

CBU strike bites

- By NATION REPORTER

COPPERBELT University (CBU) lecturers and other workers have vowed not to resume work until their February salaries are paid.

Meanwhile, students said they will chart a course of action after a new Copperbelt University Students’ Union C BUSU is inaugurate­d tomorrow.

CBUAU president Derrick Ntalasha said the work stoppage would continue because all the workers represente­d by the three unions have not received their February salaries.

The workers at CBU are represente­d by the three unions namely, CBUAU, CBU Senior Administra­tive , Profession­al and Technical Staff Union (CUSATSU) and CBU and Allied Workers Union (CBUAWU).

In an interview in Kitwe yesterday, Dr Ntalasha said workers had no means whatsoever of making it to their respective work places due to lack of money.

“So far we have not received the salaries for February and our members have got no means of getting to CBU, which is our work place. So the work stoppage has continued,’’ Dr talasha said.

The work stoppage started on Monday over the non-payment of February salaries.

And COBUSU president Christophe­r Mutale said the students would chat their ne t course of action after a new students’ union is inaugurate­d tomorrow.

“Right now, we are trying to settle down after the Youth Day holiday, but I can tell you that a new COBUSU executive will be inaugurate­d this Friday.

“After the new COBUSU executive is inaugurate­d, then we will chat a new course of action regarding the work stoppage by the lecturers,’’ Mr Mutale said.

And Mr Mutale has said he was neither in support nor against the trip taken by ice Chancellor ason goma’s trip to India

He said media statements suggesting that he was in support of the Vice-chancellor trip to India which lecturers were against, had created a rift between him and academic staff.

“I was misunderst­ood by that statement in the media. People thought I was against the lecturers and so my relationsh­ip with them is bad. So I would like to correct the impression.

“I am neither in support nor against that trip. As COBUSU president, my role is to speak for the welfare of students and not to join battles between management and the lecturers or workers’ unions ,’’ he said.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from Zambia