The Livingstone Museum Director General has disclosed that the workers from both the Livingstone Museum and Victoria Falls who took strike action and led to the paralyzing of operations for the two tourism centers have returned to work.
Gorge Mudenda, the Director General for the Livingstone Museum confirmed that the employees are back to work and everything is back to normal. He stated that the employees refused to work because they were demanding for better condition of service for 2022.
In an interview with the Zambian Business Times – ZBT, the Museum Director said the condition of service that the workers were demanding for have not yet been met but are being worked on. The ministry responded to the union through the permanent secretary, he stated.
He further added that the permanent secretary will hold a meeting with the workers union to continue to dialogue on the stipulated demands by the union workers.
The workers abandoned their posts due to non-implementation of agreed 2022 conditions of service. The delays by government to appoint management boards for the National Heritage Conservation Commission and the National Museums Board.
According to some workers, they accused the Ministry of Tourism of frustrating the process to implement the agreement despite giving authorization for negotiations to take place for improved conditions of service.
And the Ministry of Tourism through a statement seen by ZBT stated that the union has not followed procedure for their members to go on strike and has not engaged with the Ministry regarding the respective issue.
