Zambia United Local Authorities Workers Union in Kasama say unionized council workers will only resume work upon clearance of their unpaid salaries.
Kasama Municipal Council Branch Chairman Mathias Chiwasha tells Money FM in a statement that council workers have resolved to join other local authorities’ workers to down tools due to four months’ salary arrears.
On Monday this week Union president Kingsley Zulu declared that unionized council workers in 64 Local authorities will down tools due to delayed salaries.
But The Ministry of Local Government says the nation-wide strike by council workers is unjustified because central government has not failed to pay the workers their delayed salaries.
Speaking to Journalists in Lusaka yesterday Minister in Charge Dr Charles Banda reiterates that Local authorities should not depend on the equalization fund for salary obligations because the Local government Act provides that councils should use 20 percent of the fund to finance capital projects.