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‘ZAMPOST Has Turned Into Animal Farm, Where Are We Heading To?’
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.
Posted by
¸ mockingbird¸
March 26, 2013 at 9:36 am
the whole nation is a “kantemba”
kakolwe
March 26, 2013 at 11:03 am
@demotivated. If you included statistics, I would give you a benefit of doubt. Mind you, we know that Zampost lost direction at the end of PTC. Sorry, you just joined a white elephant!
bravo
March 26, 2013 at 1:01 pm
That is motivation enough to go solo. I did that a few years ago and now I have employed six hardworking guys!
ZAMPOST WORKER
March 26, 2013 at 4:18 pm
ALA MWANDI WE ARE SUFFERING GOING TO THE EXTENT OF WORKING ON GOODFRIDAY WHEN EVERY CHRISTIAN WILL BE AT CHURCH.THE MANAGEMENT THREATENS WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE SYSTEM FOR YEARS TO RESIGN IS THAT HEALTH LEAVING PENSION FOR OTHERS WHO ARE ONLY A YEAR IN THE SYSTEM
mwandila kapya
March 26, 2013 at 4:38 pm
ALAkwena aba bantu balefwaya uku tulila impiya.we even miss the former pmg and his group mwandini.efilya abasungu balanda ati the devil you know is better.it is true twafweni tachula kuli aba bantu baletila ba ma degrees.twapapata twaleni ama degrees kumbi not mu zampost please.
POSTMASTER GENERAL
March 26, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Ala kwena naine wina PMG ninchula.
Ask the Powers that be to relive me of my duties before this organisation goes under.
watchman
March 26, 2013 at 5:48 pm
Atase whats this nosense you are talking about?
workers are suffering whilst you are enjoying on their expense and you making funny of them.The company was even better off before you.you are even accumulating alot of debt in the name of changing it for the better.
Retiree
March 26, 2013 at 5:56 pm
Some of us retired three four years ago but ever since this new management came in ,we have not received even a single ngwee and i wonder how they think we are going to survive.Awe kwena twachula ifwe ma retirees.
zam
March 26, 2013 at 6:26 pm
This company is for slaves i feel sory for countet officers who handle cash no loans for them,they really look sad.Iwe ci Ceo let them have acess to cheaper loans……….you will solve problems and learn to pay inkongole to companies which provide ama loan,umesebanya ubukulu.
POSTMAN
March 26, 2013 at 6:26 pm
These guys are in for distruction.
farmer
March 26, 2013 at 7:13 pm
I feel like a peasant farmer than a ka zampost worker
jason mulenga
March 26, 2013 at 8:12 pm
just imagin, the President for the Union is the former driver, a grade nine failure. do you think such a person can challenge the PMG. ZAMPOST no proper pay structure, office orderies and drivers get more than their senior officer, there is no internal equit and this compropmises morale of employees. No plans for Human resource development, and retention, people come and go, Zampost is a steping stone.No adverts during employment.Zampost has chain of incompetent relatives
CUSTOMER
March 26, 2013 at 10:03 pm
The developments in ZAMPOST need more to be desired. Just imagine under the so Swiftcash money is sent you in the morning and only paid to you let afternoon. How swift is this? When you visit the post office, the way clients are kept it’s as they are at the hospital but infact waiting to be paid their little monies. I was amazed to see an advert running on ZNBC saying that all post offices will remain open during the easter holiydays and at the same time wonder where is going to come from to pay client since banks will be closed. Furthermore it is very un christian to force workers to work during easter when they are suppose to at church reflecting on how Jesus died to save mankind. If government has really the heart for people,they should step in and stop this infringement of the right to assembly because if they can order the workers to work on easter what will them order the workers work on Sundays. I wish also to urge the labour movement in the country to condem this in strongest terms.
mwandila kapya
March 27, 2013 at 2:18 pm
mr shamenda are you alive where are you please?