{"id":1834,"date":"2019-01-15T13:42:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2019-01-15T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:42:06","slug":"shutdown-forces-minister-to-cancel-meeting-with-unions-over-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/shutdown-forces-minister-to-cancel-meeting-with-unions-over-wages","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown forces minister to cancel meeting with unions over wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUBLIC service minister Sekai Nzenza was Monday forced to cancel a meeting with union leaders and employers after violent protests rocked Harare and Bulawayo.<\/p>\n<p>The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), backed by anti-government activists called the demonstration to protest the fuel price hike announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The protest shut down business in Harare and Bulawayo as the security services clashed with the demonstrators resulting in some 13 people being injured.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Nzenza was due to meet with the ZCTU leadership and employers under the tripartite negotiating forum.<\/p>\n<div class=\"afEWrZ5u\">\n<div class=\"in-post-div\">\n<p>The meeting, aimed at calming labour unrest over wages, was due first moved from Kaguvi government building to NSSA house before being cancelled altogether.<\/p>\n<p>ZCTU president Peter Mutasa professed ignorance over reasons for the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just received communication from the ministry that it had been cancelled but did not manage to get any details as to why it had been,\u201d said Mutasa.<\/p>\n<p>However, minister Nzenza confirmed inclement conditions in the capital meant the meeting could not go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirstly, there was a high-level meeting I had to attend and then I just felt that it was not going to be possible to have a successful meeting in the ensuing climate of what was happening in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meeting is however going to be held after things have calmed down,\u201d said Nzenza.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s protests ramped up pressure on President Mnangagwa\u2019s government at a time of increasing labour unrest around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Junior doctors grudgingly ended a 40-day strike recently during which they had demanded, among other things, that their salaries should be paid in US dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Similar demands have also been made by teachers with the whole civil service last week giving the government a 14-day notice to go on strike.<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-post-div\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUBLIC service minister Sekai Nzenza was Monday forced to cancel a meeting with union leaders and employers after violent protests rocked Harare and Bulawayo. 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