Country Rating: 3

  • Regular violation of rights

  • Government and/or companies are regularly interfering in collective labour rights or are failling to fully guarantee important aspects of these rights. There are deficiencies in laws and/or certain practices which make frequent violations possible.

When workers at the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority went on strike to demand the payment of salary arrears for the months of May, June, July and August, management dismissed 826 workers in Tanzania Cost and Profit Centre, 120 in Dar es Salaam, 53 in Mbeya, 63 at Kongolo Quarry and five at the rail's construction unit. On 29 August 2013, the Tazara Board of Directors reversed the management decision to sack 1,067 the workers. However, the company refuses to pay the salary arrears which is why the Tazara Railway Workers Union (TRAWU) decided to continue the strike.

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