ZIMBABWES 140_000 civil servants plan to go on strike on Wednesday in protest at the government’s proposed 15% cost of living adjustment. Public workers believe the government has failed to negotiate in good faith on the amount of the raise and say the government has insisted on sticking to its 11bn Zimbabwe dollar ($190m) budget for salaries, meaning the cost of living raise could not go higher than 15%. Last year civil servants won raises of between 69 and 90% on a sliding scale, according to the state-run ZIANA news agency.
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