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GOVERNMENT’S DELAYING TACTICS IN SWADNU ISSUE

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Sir,

Government seems to be taking civil servants yet again for another ride to further delay and frustrate the salary talks, thus pushing them from poverty to stinking poverty.

By it claiming it doesn’t know the General Secretary of the Swaziland Democratic Nurses Union (SWADNU), Sibusiso Lushaba, as he no longer directly serves government, thus it couldn’t proceed with the salary talks on the cost of living adjustment is purely toxic and divisive to the workers.


The unions have the liberty to define themselves and present to government an elected leadership from their various democratically structures.
Seemingly, it is now going an extra mile of defining and dictating to the workers  who should represent them, something which is surely outside its scope.


Workers will remember that when it tabled the zero per cent increment last year, it delayed the talks by stating that NAPSAWU was unknown to it. It ran from pillar to post, up and down courts and CMAC and it later said it recognised the union. The truth is, it wanted to buy time until the next fiscal year because it didn’t want to give its workers their well deserved monies.


Similar mind games are at play now so that it can smoothly hold its wasteful 50/50 celebrations and later claim it doesn’t have money to adjust their salaries.


Since when has government started announcing through SBIS and newspapers that workers’ salaries will be adjusted to cope with inflation will be a discussion for another day.


Martin Luther King once said; “Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.” Like what they did with NAPSAWU, unions should support SWADNU in unity of purpose against this parasitic behaviour by their employer. All government wants to do is to divide and paralyse SWADNU, in particular, and the unions’ bargaining muscle in general; an act they should defeat at all cost.

I heard from the grapevine that Lushaba recently completed his political economy studies, something which government may analyse as a victory to the workers and a threat to it in as far as the bargaining table is concerned. This is the programme great leaders like Karl Max, Fidel Castro and Lenin loved and believed in. Government’s argument holds no water at all.

   Injub’copho
(Mountain Top Analysis)

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