MUK To Raise Workers’ Pay
Apr 02, 2004
MAKERERE University’s central administration has agreed to increase the salaries of over 400 non-teaching employees after the workers laid down their tools for two days early this week.
By Fortunate Ahimbisibwe
MAKERERE University’s central administration has agreed to increase the salaries of over 400 non-teaching employees after the workers laid down their tools for two days early this week.
In a crisis meeting by top management on Wednesday, the administration succumbed to demands of the workers and agreed to review the salary scales of all support staff.
“The central management has agreed to increase the salaries of the workers but it has not yet agreed to the percentage of the increment,†a source said after the meeting.
The University Secretary, Ben Byambazi, was reportedly called into the meeting and assured them that the university has the money to increase salaries.
The secretary of the Makerere University union, which caters for the non-taching employees, Patrick Appuli, wrote to all the workers assuring them that their salaries would be increased.
“Management has accepted to increase your salaries and look further into the grievances of the workers,†he said.
The strike was called off pending further negotiations by the leaders of the union with the university’s top administration.
The workers, however, said they had given the university 21 days to increase their salaries or they would again lay down their tools.
The workers are complaining that the ‘single spine salary structure’ which was adopted from the Government has ‘created very alarming gaps.’
“M1-M10 which has 1,110 employees will be earning sh19b while the 2,900 employees between M11-M15 and MA-MP will earn sh5b,†the statement said. The workers are demanding that the lowest should earn at least sh200,000.
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MAKERERE University’s central administration has agreed to increase the salaries of over 400 non-teaching employees after the workers laid down their tools for two days early this week.
In a crisis meeting by top management on Wednesday, the administration succumbed to demands of the workers and agreed to review the salary scales of all support staff.
“The central management has agreed to increase the salaries of the workers but it has not yet agreed to the percentage of the increment,†a source said after the meeting.
The University Secretary, Ben Byambazi, was reportedly called into the meeting and assured them that the university has the money to increase salaries.
The secretary of the Makerere University union, which caters for the non-taching employees, Patrick Appuli, wrote to all the workers assuring them that their salaries would be increased.
“Management has accepted to increase your salaries and look further into the grievances of the workers,†he said.
The strike was called off pending further negotiations by the leaders of the union with the university’s top administration.
The workers, however, said they had given the university 21 days to increase their salaries or they would again lay down their tools.
The workers are complaining that the ‘single spine salary structure’ which was adopted from the Government has ‘created very alarming gaps.’
“M1-M10 which has 1,110 employees will be earning sh19b while the 2,900 employees between M11-M15 and MA-MP will earn sh5b,†the statement said. The workers are demanding that the lowest should earn at least sh200,000.
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