Malawi civil servants demand 45% pay hike, or strike Monday: CSTU threaten ‘biggest action’
Civil Service Trade Union (CSTU) has protested the 10 percent pay hike and counter demanded a 45 percent hike, saying if government fails to address their concerns they will go on strike on Monday as they warned the public to expect the biggest action.
The strike which will include nurses in public hospitals will herald industrial unrest in a major challenge to the government.
If it goes ahead, the strike threatens to disrupt public services.
CSTU general secretary Madalitso Njolomole said the union will meet government negotiating team on Friday morning to find out if their 45 percent demand has been met.
“We held a meeting to solicit views from our members on 10 percent salary increment Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe announced in the proposed 2017/18 National Budget. They have asked us that if government cling to 10 percent hike, then we start strike on Monday,” he said.
“We have not given government the actual increment but we want the lowest paid who is getting K61 000 before tax to reach K75 000 before tax,” said Njolomole.
But Chief Secretary to the Government Lloyd Muhara accused unions of “rushing” into action while negotiations were continuing.
The civil servants’ push for higher pay rise comes against the background of a warning by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the wage bill while strengthening tax compliance to mobilise enough resources in line with the country’s goals.
Following a 15 percent pay hike for the public sector last July, the public sector wage bill rose by K22 billion to K264 billion which, according to Treasury, was 23.3 percent of total expenditure in the K1.3 trillion 2016/17 National Budget.
Koma Ya!
what is 45% to be honesty? are indians especially who shows are malawian country owners. they manage shopping everything in the country while us that you call malawians get leftovers. do you think if you give 45% we’ll be rich? are we going to buy cars? I don’t think. we know these foreigners will raise prices of goods in their shops of which that 45% will be nothing at all. for you to be there, to be called names, it”s because of us whom you underlet. if you government ask the foreigners to comeup with votes running the country, will they reach our number? give us the 45% though we know you are going to ask Indian traders to raise their goods prices. Talira mokwana ife aMalawi mu dziko lathu lomwe. 45% basi. Ife slavery tatopa nayo. Kapena pafunika xenophobia kapena, kuti mudziwe tatopa ndi ulemu?
Ziperekedwe basi. Bwanji zokwezera udindo Ngongoliwa chaka ndi chaka sizimasowa? Ndalama za boma akuzidya ndi a chipani cha DPP. Panopa galimoto zomwe zikuyenera kugwira ntchito ya National Registration (ID) exercise zili busy ferrying DPP brute women here in LL. Where they go everyday nobody knows.
The thing is civil servants are poorly paid whether donors like it or not. Let the servants get enough for their survival. If DPP led government has no money to raise salaries then surrender the mantle to those who are ready to give due respect to the civil servants. How can one call the civil service a “Calling”? Mad useless old man! Is this embedded in the MPSR? Just leave government if you can’t raise money for civil servant. Vindere zafufwikapo nadi ivi. Malawi for Malawians not donors. We have heard so much rubbish about the donors, what do they bring to the people – rubbish, rubbish, and rubbish.
Big up cstu
On behalf of Malawians in diaspora in North America,we strongly support the demands of Civil Servants for pay raise that will march with the cost of living in the country,while Muthalika and his gang of looters are swimming in golden waters.Unfortunately,President Peter Muthalika,does not care a damn.Recent international economic Index puts Malawi as the poorest and most corrupt nation in the world and few of the government leaders are extraordinarily rich.Countrymen,Banda ruled you like captives in your own country,but you showed him in 1994,that you are human beings with brilliant brains and have the will to live like other human beings in the planet.If the President has sided himself with few corrupt and thieves to loot national resources and sidelined the workers who bring progress to the national coffers,brothers and sisters,we are solidly behind you and remember that KAKWIZA KEKHA KANAMSIKU.GOD BLESS YOU AND WISH YOU ALL THE BEST IN YOUR ENDEAVOR!!!!!!!
koma yaa APA zinthu zayamba kuvuta
koma yaaa ziliko this year
Unfortunately there is no outside trip soon for APM to run away from problems. He quality run away at the start of the teachers strike, buried his head in the sand hoping Chancellor college lectures will have resumed, Chaponda continues sleeping peacefully and PAC resolutions are on the way etc,etc.
Malawi ameneyo!!!
Just fire them and outsurce the services which the government workers do not do anyway!
#APMmustfall#
Let the government give civil servants the 45 percent they want, the 45 percent salary increment will help to cushion the civil servants from the exorbitant taxes on bread,milk, water and all that that has made their lives hard and unbearable.
Bwampini ndi nduna zake akamanena kuti zinthu zili bwino is total mockery to the civil servants, mitengo ya zinthu ikukwera daily yet akuti inflation ikutsika ….. apa pokha sitibwerera mbuyo tapilira nthawi yaitali, MP pano mukuti MK1,000,000 per month ife 10%? Tiwonana Monday basi come rain or sunshine !!!!
45% for what? kukhalira ma bawo ntchito simugwira….
Umudziwe Yesu!
Iwe nde gwape weniweni…are a malawian?
Do u see wats happening or understand wats going on….mbuzi
Ukati anthu akungokhalila bawo wat do u mean?
Now is the time to straighten things. Let us unite, we have nothing to lose but the chains we are bound in.
In fact it should be 48+% to be inline with at least Malawi Housing “thing”
This Government is taking Malawians for granted. Logically, the 48% of rental hike is not in line with a 10% salary hike. Economically, Malawians are being made worse off by 38%, what an insult!!!! More over, food basket has gone up by more than 10%, implying that if common reasoning is to make sense, the salaries of civil servants must increase by more than 58% so that these civil servants should maintain value of their real incomes. Otherwise, a calculator of Gondwe is inffected with viruses!!
A Goodall Akweza DSTV, GOAL TV ayika tax ku Madzi soap amati ife ndalama tizitenga kuuu????
yes 45% is much better items are expensinve, asmangokweza ma fees akucollege ayi, zizibalansa zinthu
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH CSTU
Things are in order here. The rising costs which government sees through MHC are very much so to the poorly paid civil servants. Why should it be 10% salary increase for civil servants when MPs have increased their salaries by 95%? Why 10% when MHC has raised the rent by 100%? Theft by trick as all what civil servants will get after 10% increase will be paid back as tax, and you cart home K1500.00. Do people need education for a “calling” job? Do you know how much civil servants are contributing towards the success of this nation? Is it appropriate to reward them in this way? Let it rain, cats and dogs until our welfare is uplifted. Tapilira kokwanira and can’t hold no more. More fireeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its high time we shake up the executive. We are being abused. People in government are stealing to make ends meet. How can someone survive with the little money we get. Look at these politicians the way the play around with cash.. No no no. We need enough money to send our kids to good schools like them. We need good food to sustain our health. We need to live in good homes not these dusty homes we rent. We will love our jobs once we get good money.. not this money we get. These old politician people can not retire because they are getting and stealing money in government. Look at this someone with stacks of money in his house. We go to the streets people if they dont give us the 48% INCREAMENT. Do we have to die poor because we are civil servants. Fotseki!!!
Anyambetete lero amangokhala phwiiiiiiiii……m’bebe weniweni
Malawi Government should tell civil servants to start now to report corrupt practices that has engulfed government departments, statutory corporations and government ministries as one way of reducing huge sums of taxpayers’ money going down the drain.
Thereafter prune the entire public service of dead wood, the lazy group and structure some of the posts before increasing the salaries by 45% as demanded. It does not make sense for the “strikers” to demand pay rise when they are dong nothing to stop the current corruption malaise which, according to 66% of people’s perception, that it is worsening.
People pay for public services in hospitals, road traffic, border posts, teachers collects money from pupils every term without issuance of receipts etc. where does the money go? Are those in authority aware of the plight of ordinary Malawians?
Nonsense, There ‘s no fees in public primary xools.
It starts to rain in rainy season. There’s sunshine during dry season. Things are in order here, we all knew that one day these things will come to pass.
10% salary hike against the raising cost of living is not only absurd but also madness.
Think of 48% rental hike by MHC against the meagre 10% salary hike?
#mitusikugwira#
apapa nde peter ndi gudo amve m’bebe sopanotu, amayenda m’mbali