Dear Editor.
It’s sad see a big organisation like ZAMPOST being run like a small shop (Kantemba).
To explain this,the company makes a lot of money, but we the workers who work very hard to make the same money under very difficult conditions are subjected to very poor working conditions. What we the workers get is too little as compared to the effort we put in. The language we hear when we talk of salary increment and improved conditions of service is that there is no money.
If there no money,where do they take the money to?. In addition, Working hours were adjusted upwards from 08:00-16:30 to from 08:00-18:00 during week days and from 08:00-14:00 on Saturdays but no overtime is paid. As this is not enough management has also imposed on us to be working even on public holidays.
If I may ask ,when are we going to do our personal pieces of work and rest if this is the case? The UNION we belong to is supposed to be our mouth piece in protecting our interests as workers against bad managerial tendencies but this is not the case. The work place has been turned in to an animal farm such that those who seem to stand up and defend their rights as workers, are intimidated of being shown an exit door.
Furthermore the UNION instead of siding with us workers is compromised and has been weakened such that management is performing a duo role of that being a union and management.
We have nowhere to run to except to you Tumfweko and other electronic media to convey the message on our behalf to the powers that be before the company goes under. Besides the infrastructure(buildings) are extremely dirty and furniture in all Post Offices around the country is dilapidated as such we are not proud workers.Please help me post this on your website so that the government knows about this in case they are not aware of such happenings in ZAMPOST and that bloggers can blog. Let me end here.
Demotivated worker.