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Over 400 MCM Miners ‘Choose’ To Go
OVER 400 miners at Mopani Copper Mines (MCM) have opted for voluntary separation, Mineworkers Union of Zambia (MUZ) general-secretary Joseph Chewe has said.
Mr Chewe said in an interview in Kitwe yesterday that over 400 miners at MCM opted for voluntary separation, which the Glencore-owned mining company offered as part of the debt reduction strategy.
Mr Chewe, however, said MUZ is disturbed by reports that MCM is allegedly putting pressure on miners to go on voluntary separation.
He said MUZ is now looking forward to President Lungu’s five-day working visit to Kitwe to help avert job losses in the mining sector.
Mr Chewe also said there is need for Government to increase its stake in mining companies because some investors are proving to be unreliable whenever there is a slump in copper prices on the international market.
He said it is disappointing that MCM has gone ahead to reduce labour by putting pressure on workers to go on voluntary separation.
MCM recently wrote to Government over its plans to lay off over 3,800 workers but the request was rejected by Government and union leaders.
“Mopani has gone ahead to lay off workers through voluntary separation. Over 400 workers, including those who were supposed to retire in December, have lost jobs through this mode of reducing labour by Mopani. This is another learning curve for Zambia.
“As a country, we need to increase our stake in the mines to avoid this problem of seeing these private mining companies retrenching workers whenever the sector faces challenges,” Mr Chewe said.
Efforts to get a comment from MCM public relations manager Cephas Sinyangwe proved futile.
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New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 29, 2015 at 10:22 am
And some fools will say ifintu ni lungu. Things are bad you people.
jabi
October 29, 2015 at 10:56 pm
Nez ulitole sana!akabwamba waumfwa
KILLA D
October 29, 2015 at 10:31 am
Chewe sounds like a boy…ati waitin 4 president lungu,wat z goin 2 do?
steve
October 29, 2015 at 10:35 am
“As a country, we need to increase our stake in the mines to avoid this problem of seeing these private mining companies retrenching workers whenever the sector faces challenges,” Mr Chewe said.
1.As long as Zambia has no controlling interest in the mines it will be difficult to influence anything.
2. If Zambia gets a majority state, can we manage to run the mines and buy off the shares from the current holders. Do we have the money, time and skills?
Ndaje Kahks
October 29, 2015 at 11:53 am
Mistake was made in the initial contracts. Unfortunately since Zambia is a signatory to International protocols, we cannot repossess these mines without being blacklisted.
Ndaje Kahks
October 29, 2015 at 10:36 am
No body is putting pressure on anybody. NEZ things like this have always happened in the Mining Industry, only a warped mind will deny this.
Shaka Zulu
October 29, 2015 at 10:56 am
Voluntary separation is normal in the mines. It has been there for a long time.Infact, the benefits are more than resigning or being fired.
Onyx power @vampiros
October 29, 2015 at 11:38 am
Better to separate and leave energy for farming. We need you in agriculture business.
CHICCO
October 29, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Nez, indeed things are bad but knowing you and the level of education you’ve attained, your comments leaves much to be desired. Please bro strive not only to make your wonderful comments always objective but also seasoned. Besides, who does’nt know the main reasons behind this!.
Ndaje Kahks
October 29, 2015 at 12:03 pm
Whatever education this NEZ has is wasted. He behaves like the way we Ngumbos used to do, every time a relative died it was due to witch craft.
UMUBEMBA NKONKO
October 29, 2015 at 12:20 pm
Imwe NEZ libolofye
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 29, 2015 at 12:31 pm
is that all your incapacitated brain could come up with. Typical pf scum
Ndaje Kahks
October 29, 2015 at 1:06 pm
Even scum have the power of the vote. From your ranting one can foresee how Upnd will beat up everyone they suspect to be opposition in power.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 29, 2015 at 1:07 pm
the only violent party is the pf which refuses to do away with the POA. public order act.
Ndaje Kahks
October 29, 2015 at 2:01 pm
By using foul language you are a very violent person.
Trump team
October 29, 2015 at 12:26 pm
UPND will make sure that when big mining congoremerates like glencore are making a business dicision in the boardroom, tasking the glencore CEO with questions why glencore share price are falling on the Canadian market and not LUSE.We will rush in and slap the sense out of those rich guys and tell them that our magic economic concoction as UPND will rescue them from their mindless $2B liabilities. Vote UPND bane to make your life like paradise, bring back lost lover in 2 days, get that job fast as we will post application for you. 😊
karyn
October 29, 2015 at 12:45 pm
NEZ it is not wise to use such words like “FOOLS” to colleagues with divergent views. Respect everyone regardless.Educated people do not brag about their Education and you just need to dig more information about the Founder servant of UPND late Anderson Kambela Mazoka to know that Education and pomposity have no place in Leadership.He was a people person and ate from the Canteen with workers. He rolled up his sleeves to dip his own cattle at Teba Farm and slept in huts. His Bestfriend was Peart Siwale a non Tonga and hated tribalism with a passion! I worked for him as his PA and I cannot find anyone in UPND that has his qualities. He went to Harvard University the highest Institutions of learning and I bet you did not know. He listened to both young and old and respected every human being on this Earth. He revered every President and never called them Names at all! Learn to keep your Education to yourself and enjoy it whilst it lasts! Some of us on this Platform are your Mothers and we are crying for Mother Zambia day and night for God’s Help. At the end of each Election Zambia still remains Zambia and its people Zambians that co-exist. We are family. God Bless You.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 29, 2015 at 1:10 pm
karyn you must be a lost person. I am sure majority of people here know mazokas biography. If anything I was related to the man. For your information I am not tonga so I do not understand why you are going on about tribe. Nothing I post has anyhtng to do with tribe. The only idiots posting about tribe are the pf who are insecure and are using that to dent upnd. From the way you are blogging one can easily tell that since you lost your PA job you got hungry and lost any integrity in you. You have been reduced to a mere pf cadre who cannot be objective to say the least
karyn
October 29, 2015 at 1:52 pm
God Bless you and thank you! Am sure you do not know much about him then because how many years have passed since his demise and I am a Customer services Manager at an International Company and what relative who has a myopic and foul mouth calling pipo IDIOTS! He taught us to speak kindly of each other and avoid hate speeches that are for less mortals! I love PF for their original ideologies of Pro-poor policies and I am not ashamed to state this and their humility exhibited by the President. There is still room for improvement in him, but let us respect him! I do not know any relative of his who sounds like you!I am sure he would have no time for you and would probably ignore your calls to his office. Bitterneess is a poison. Get rid of it
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 29, 2015 at 2:22 pm
I have rattled your cage mwaiche. See I was right. Yiu are just a pf cadre trying to impost one of late mazokas PA. You are very predictable you pf cadres. In the same way that you view pf as a flawless saint is the same way we view upnd. Oh the joys of democracy eh? Good luck in 2016 mwaiche
AT A DISTANCE
October 29, 2015 at 3:52 pm
Ba NEZ bushe mukachinja ama goal posts imiku inga kanshi….Kale mwaamba. Nafuti mwala chinja ati 2021 mwaiche kekekeke!!!!
Trump team
October 29, 2015 at 1:54 pm
That is owesome advise for you Nez my fellow blogger.And you wonder why Mazoka scoped CB and LSK overwhelmingly. There was some thing about him which was more than tribe. Sad he died but I am sure he could have been the next best president Zambia had ever had. Just his election could have raised investor confidence ten fold.I saw it in the eyes of my fellow miners when Mazoka lost elections, there was a sense of hopelessness and gloomy and when he died , be it whatever you guys are now calling it, any tribe they were teary, especially the miners I worked with. They revered Mazoka beyond tribe. Up to now some of them still do.They still live in the what if mood. I am now working in the mines of SA but still proudly Zambian. I will never insult nez, I can only challenge his views because in the end we are one striving for a better Zambia☺happy Halloween lol😈
wezi mtonga
October 29, 2015 at 2:16 pm
The government was supposed to have there own mine
rather than always looking at investors troubling there people and making rubbish excuses
wezi mtonga
October 29, 2015 at 2:22 pm
I pray GOD make me extremely rich that I may buy these mines from the investors and develops my country to be a first world.Amen thanks Lord for answering my prayer
wezi mtonga
October 29, 2015 at 2:29 pm
Steve its not about time and skill we are the workers in these mines these are just managers,we need money to buy them off they are waiting our time to develops Zambia
Ndaje Kahks
October 29, 2015 at 2:51 pm
@Wezi, we have the skills but lack capital which is controlled by foreign countries.
Ndaje Kahks
October 29, 2015 at 2:58 pm
I have just been watching SABC. After the fall in oil price, Angolans are feeling the hit now. Just watch it
karyn
October 29, 2015 at 3:47 pm
My Dear Nez you just have to ask Hon Christine Mutinta Mazoka and you will be told the truth. I have seen their children grow Machenje, Passina, Chiko, Junior Mazoka well mannered, cultured and humble! I used to take care of them from Babies and they considered me a part of family so if you know Late AKMazoka from reading his Biography then you are warped and probably are part of his family now, after he passed on which I think he should be ashamed of himself and turning in his Grave. Save your rhetoric. Thanks Trump. The man was extraordinary, he could not even find words for a quarrel and if he argued he was the first to apologize even when he was RIGHT! He knew mining like farming from a Diamond drill bit to Anglo American MD Central Africa a Man from Mungwi school spoke Bemba like he was not Tonga! Generous without cause, a Father who sat you down to listen and learn! Which relative are you?I have no cause to read his Biography because if I did I would be disappointed to find out he left a lot of parts as he was very poor at describing himself!! I forgive you Son!
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 29, 2015 at 7:33 pm
karyn thank you for that irrelevant information that has no bearing on our political future. You seem to be the type of person that is locked in the past. Mazoka is gone and nothing will bring the man back. The wise tend to move on and achieve more. We do not have time to start reminsicing about the dead and wishing. Wishes are just that.. wishes. Me being related to mazoka is not a privilige or make me better than anyone else. The same applies to your allegations of being his so called PA. What i want to hear from you is what your party PF will do about the various probelms we are facing. We in upnd do not have time to start dreaming about the past and wishing. This is time to work. Wake up please. As a famous man said:let the dead bury the dead, i am a living man i got work to do
chimbifya mwango
October 29, 2015 at 3:49 pm
Ifintu ni lungu
karyn
October 29, 2015 at 4:09 pm
Ndaje thanks! Are the Angolans going to blame His Excellency President Eduardo Dos Santos for the fall in Oil prices? Mu Zambia Copper price fall ati ni Lungu! God who answers by Fire ikileni twachula!
Ndanje khakis
October 29, 2015 at 4:25 pm
Germany is cutting 1500 deuche bank jobs. Instead of using our current problems as a campaign tool look at it from a proper angle. Pantu mukailetelela
Hello Haters
October 29, 2015 at 4:15 pm
I thought i can sit on the wall and watch you chat on a one on one, but bit by bit you are turning into a PFool, what ‘s with you chaps and tribe, what do you mean when you say he spoke bemba like he was not tonga? You mean you can only support people from other tribes if they speak bemba? Bane tatwakalye umutundu.
john mazyu
October 29, 2015 at 4:53 pm
who should make those resolutions,is it the president or mr chewe?
Hello Haters
October 29, 2015 at 10:18 pm
@Ndanje and wife karyn, stop comforting yourselves by claiming that your neighbors are also going through the same scenario like your sorry site homestead, i pit your children, do you know what you neighbors have in their treasury reserves to pull through such a drier patch, unlike you whose treasury reservoir have been kolopad, and what have deutsche bank have to do with the Zambian job crisis, these are literally two totally different scenarios, what i know is that that bank has been grappling with a lot of litigation issues, alot legal costs and fees, plus some laundering activities, and has made huge losses from that, this is one org just trying to do some cost serving measures and revamp it’s image, and has nothing to do with your pf song “everywhere it’s global crisis” if that what you trying to drive at, wanvela iwe, boza too much. Ubufi.
observer
October 29, 2015 at 10:32 pm
Guys just get your money and forget about the mines,think about some other things to do let’s not try to be slaves in our consiencious that its only in mines and no where else.