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Minister Gaudensia Kabaka told drivers in Dar es Salaam earlier in the week that registration of their trade union for which they had been appealing under the association that involved both the drivers and their employers known as Chamamoto, was underway.
She made the pledge as she appealed to the drivers to call off a series of strikes they said they would hold if the government would go on turning a blind eye to registering a trade union that would give them separate mandate to fight for their rights devoid of their employers’ involvement.
“I beg you to wait for a while as my office is negotiating with the Registrar of Trade Unions over registration details,” she told the drivers, sounding an alarm of an unprecedented economic loss the nation would incur should the drivers strike.
With Tanzania’s unreliable railroads, trucks are the main means of transporting exports and imports to and from seven neighbouring land-locked states including Malawi, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and even Zimbabwe.
But she also advised the drivers to form a single unified body for all drivers, instead of the split units representing common interests in disorderly manner.
Speculations about the anticipated strikes made headlines mainly in social media only a week after the devastating nationwide strikes by upcountry and inner-city commuter bus drivers who took the government to task over its controversial decisions allegedly detrimental to the motorists’ interests.
The government formed a thirteen-member permanent committee to oversee the drivers’ concerns, but is yet to come up with new resolutions.
SOURCE: GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY
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