EDITORIAL: TZ doomed if employers ignore workers’ plight

As Tanzanian teachers join their professional colleagues elsewhere to mark the World Teachers’ Day, held on October 5 annually since 1994, it is appropriate to look at the situation of our teachers, without whom we cannot talk of any meaningful future of our young.

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>Tanzania marked Labour Day on Thursday with workers pushing the government to raise salaries, reduce Pay As You Earn income tax and review pension schemes. The Trade Union Congress of Tanzania wants the minimum salary raised from Sh170,000 to Sh750,000 to cover the ever-rising cost of living.

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Even for a small company, Sh12 million is a tiny amount. It is thus almost unbelievable that, MMG, a gold processing firm in Bukombe District, Geita Region, has sacrificed its reputation by delaying to pay 60 of its temporary workers that sum.

“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realising you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”- Dennis Lehane.

The ruling party in the region has urged its members not to let leaders of the Coalition of Defenders of the People’s Constitution (Ukawa) to sway them in their position with regards to the process of writing the new Constitution.

>The President of Zanzibar, Dr Ali Mohamed Shein, has said the proposed new constitution would provide a solution to various Union problems contrary to some people’s claim that it would add more challenges.