Strike at Beira Public Transport company – Mozambique

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Strike at Beira Public Transport company – Mozambique

2:30 CAT | 09 Feb 2017

Diário de Moçambique / Diário de Moçambique reports that the strike has affected the Dondo'Beira route

More than 350 workers from Beira Public Transport (TPB) in the capital of Sofala province in central Mozambique downed tools on Wednesday to demand that all cuts in subsidies, including overtime and the payment of the 13th salary, be reversed.

The strikers are also demanding the immediate disbanding of the management committee set up in 2015 to run the company.

The newspaper O País writes in today’s edition that workers had their January salaries paid last Tuesday and found to their surprise that all the subsidies had been cut.

The strikers say they demanded an explanation from the company’s management, which is currently composed of a committee set up in October 2015, but the response was not to their liking and they decided to go on strike.

“We still do not know why they did this to us. After our pressure, the management committee explained that the central government reduced the monthly amounts sent to the company, that is, from about seven million meticais to close to three “

According to the management committee and as a solution for all to have some money, all subsidies were withdrawn, the workers explained.

The strikers are also demanding payment of the 13th salary, recalling that last December the Council of Ministers said that half of the 13th month salary would be paid by mid-January.

“But the message seems not to have arrived here at Beira Public Transport. We demand what is ours.”

The Sofala government says it does not understand the reason for the strike and that the situation results from economic difficulties.

Hélcio Canda, provincial director of Transport and Communications, says that with the restructuring of treasury funds, the company started to receive less money, in fact, just over 2.5 million meticais.

“And for the full payment of salaries we would need about six million. So we have a deficit of about four million meticais. There are local and central efforts going on about this, and we call on the workers to go back to work,” he advised.

Source: AIM Moçambique