/ 15 April 1999

ZIM TELECOMS ON STRIKE

A PAY strike in Zimbabwe paralysed postal and some telecommunication services went into its second day on Wednesday, Post and Telecommunications Corporation human resources manager Mike Nxele said. Nxele said the parastatal has offered workers a 15% pay rise in addition to the 20% cost of living adjustment demanded by the country’s powerful national labour movement. But the workers are demanding a 45% rise, which they contend was still lower than the inflation rate of 50%.

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