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UNIONS INSIST ON E3 500 MINIMUM WAGE IN SD

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MHLUME – ‘Enough is enough’ is what workers under TUCOSWA have told government as they listed about 16 demands.


The workers want all their demands to be addressed by government.This was presented by Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA) President Quinton Dlamini during the celebration of Workers Day 2017, which was held at Nsukuwansuku Stadium, Mhlume.


He said all the demands they have for government were not new as some of them were raised during the previous government. The demands include national minimum wage, labour brokers and government for the people.


The federation’s bid to demand responses from government received huge support from civil society organisations and political formations. The groups said when TUCOSWA took to the streets for certain demands, they would join them because they supported the union and that could be an opportunity for them to push for multi-party democracy in the country since the federation was also demanding a government for the people.


One of the demands which every organisation which attended the event supported was the national minimum wage of E3 500. They agreed that such should be implemented because in turn, it would boost the economy of the country. They argued that when people were paid better, they gain buying power and the economy would shoot up.


On that aspect, the president said from 2013 they asked government to request the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to conduct a study on the introduction of such to guide the nation as to how to consider improving the wages of its worker who do not benefit from the annual circulars that government uses to reward politicians.

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