ESCOM employees down tools over salary issues
Disgruntled employees at Electricity Supply Cooperation of Malawi (ESCOM) are on an industrial strike across the country to force authorities to harmonize their salaries with their colleagues at Electricity Generation Company (EGENCO) and Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA).
The workers have vowed not to go back to their work until the company addresses their concerns.
Employees whom Nyasa Times randomly talked to in Kasungu District said they initially lodged their concerns with the authorities asking them to respond to our concerns by the end of April, 2020 but received no feedback.
While confirming the development, ESCOM public relations officer, Innocent Chitosi said the company will address the matter by the end of Wednesday (May 5) and expect that the workers will be back to their respective works same day.
Very sad indeed, Escom workers do not need salary rise, you call faults numbers they are either bizi or out of order, you whtsaap them they will not respond, their technical team ate lazy , if they respond they will say we are on the queue, for the past weeks lots of black out, we have gone through 36-48 hours without electricity, Please Dr Chilima visit them as well as you did with Blantyre water board.
Remove lazy people and put fresh youngsters who are jobless.
Who will pay for our hard earned food that gets rotten in the fridge?because of some lazy idiots we end up loosing money, and yet it’s because of us consumers that they are paid their salaries, I say no to increment for these idiots, rather put this money on the the bare naked street lights that have been erected in towns but not connected.