ZCTU chief executive Wellington Chibebe (pictured) last week said his organisation would soon be distributing flyers with salary structures prevailing in the various sectors.
“The flyers will show the highest salary being offered in the sector and also the lowest,” Chibebe said. “The workers will then use these figures to negotiate for better remuneration. If this does not force the executives to improve workers’ conditions, we will then name and shame people.”
Chibebe said under the “name and shame campaign.” ZCTU would identify executives, their companies, salaries and allowances, as well as identify their children’s schools and how much the companies are paying in fees.
Also to be listed are the numbers and types of cars the executives have. Under the first phase of the campaign, the lowest salary would be published against the executive’s salary while under the second phase; the lowest paid worker would be identified by name, their salary published together with some detail on their living conditions.
“We have been doing research into salaries being obtained in the various sectors and we have come to the conclusion that employers haven’t been honest with their workers,” Chibebe said. “From the time we changed over to the foreign currency regime, company executives pegged their salaries so high that they have never felt the burden that the poorly-paid workers have to endure daily. We are saying there is no confidentiality in times of hardship so the executives should disclose their salaries so that workers understand when they plead poverty.”
Chibebe said it was disheartening that some executives are earning as much as US$11 000 monthly in basic salaries and numerous benefits while some workers earned as low as US$150.
“We have cases of some parastatals and some timber companies as examples,” Chibebe said. “We will also be knocking on parliament’s doors to seek legislators’ intervention so the economic recovery burden is shared by everyone. When the economic crisis hit the United States of America, government intervened and some people’s salaries were slashed,” Chibebe said.
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“Why should the current crop of executives be allowed to continue bleeding the economy at the expense of productivity and everyone else?” he said.
