Great Zim varsity staff down tools

By Godfrey Mtimba

MASVINGO – Workers at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) have embarked on a strike over their unpaid February salaries. 

They are also demanding last year’s 13th cheque. The workers, who included lecturers and non-teaching staff, commenced the job action on Monday.

They have since passed a resolution to stay at home until the university pays them their salaries and outstanding bonuses.

Jabulani Denhere, GZU workers union president, said: “Workers have not been paid their February salaries as well as their 2014 end of year bonus.

“Because of this, workers are incapacitated and cannot come to work. The workers have agreed to stay at home until they get their money so they can be able to report for duty.”

The job action has left students at the university stranded. Lectures have been called off.

Workers said they were disgruntled by the GZU vice chancellor, Rungano Zvogbo and his administration for ignoring their plight.

“We do not understand what’s going on here,” said one worker who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“How can the university prioritise buying buildings in the city to turn into learning rooms while the workers are not being paid?”

Zvogbo declined to comment. Daily News