 The State of the Labour Movement Today and the Prospects for the Future In fighting, division, internal conflicts and a weak alliance characterises the labour movement in Zambia today. It is beyond question that the labour movement itself to be used as a tool for politicians to the injury of a once strong trade union movement. Following the Industrial and Labour Relations Act of 1993 more unions have emerged, some have split away from the mainstream unions while others have disaffiliated from ZCTU making the labour movement today more divided than ever in the history of the country. Thus there are today twenty-five unions in Zambia. Of these five had disaffiliated from the ZCTU in 1994 and one has rejoined. At least two unions have never been affiliated to the ZCTU although there are strong indications that they will apply for affiliation before the end of the year. The five unions that had disaffiliated from the ZCTU are the Mine Workers Union of Zambia (MUZ) and the National Union of Building, Engineering and General Workers (NUBEGW) the Zambia Union of Financial and Allied Workers (ZUFIAW) the Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNTU) and the National Union of Commercial and Industrial Workers (NUCIW). These had grouped together to form the Federation of Free Trade Unions in Zambia (FFTUZ) which had not yet been registered at the time of publication of this monogram. It is interesting to note that NUCIW had rejoined the ZCTU and the Technical and Trades Lecturers Union has lodged an application to the ZCTU. The University of Zambia Lecturers and Researchers Union (UNZALARU), which has never affiliated to the ZCTU is also considering applying for affiliation to the ZCTU. The question is is the union of benefit to miners. Is it woth it to continue being reprisented by unions
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:17:43 +0000
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