The Apex Council, the umbrella body representing civil servants unions has passed a resolution to demand a meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to highlight the plight of the workers. Said Apex Council vice-chairperson Thomas Muzondo,
We also agreed that we want a wage adjustment that will see a least paid civil servant getting not less than $700 which is the poverty datum line. Most importantly, we would want to meet with the President so that we could highlight our challenges as civil servants. Every union should be represented at that meeting.
Some of the resolutions which we made include the issue of vacation for our teachers. The government had offered to pay teachers in exchange of their leave days, but the payment was to be made in staggered form, we have said, let such payments be a once-off dispatch.
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