Thread by @OpenParlyZw

Welcome to OpenParly in Conversation with labour leaders as part of the 3rd National Citizens Convention #NoneButOurselves

@OMasaraure : We now have a flourishing private sector and disintegrating public sector, if you are born in Binga your chances of making it in our education system are slim

Bernard Mpofu: We have seen doctors leaving the country, what is the pull and push factors?

Doctor Zvakada: We have a situation where health workers are demotivated, we have doctors in hospital but with no basic minimum equipment to use, there is no continuity if following up patients #NonButOurselves

Doctor Zvakada: The health system in Zimbabwe favours those in urban areas than rural areas, figures don't lie, mortality rates have risen greatly because our health system has disintegrated #NonButOuselves @MoHCCZim @healthtimeszim

Robert Chiduku: Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union: We have a new health minister and perm sec and they are both soldiers, and they are chanting unilateral directives which are military in nature #NoneButOurselves

@OMasaraure : If we are going to be looking for the Public Service Act they don't have platforms for collective bargaining, the first step is to ensure we realign our law with Section 65 of the Constitution, Labour Act should be the same

@OMasaraure : What is important is to remove the guns from the public sector, nurses, teachers and doctors are leaving running away from these guns #NonButOurselves

Nokuthula Hlabangan: What is happening is that they are just making decisions and announcing them on Twitter but who did they negotiate with? When did the negotiations take place? #NonButOurselves

Dr Zvakada: There is reason to negotiate with someone who comes with a decision, recruiting doctors under the military, we are training people who are not marketable beyond our borders #NoneButOurselves

Hlabangana: It's disappointing that government announce a surplus when they fail to give us enough to feed our families, and then someone stands up and say we have a surplus, it means everyone is living a middle class, they need to revisit their policies

Hlabangana: They say there is a surplus and yet they actually reduced our salaries #NonButOurselves

@OMasaraure : We forgive Joseph Chinotimba, he could be having mental problems, the problem in this country is that if you say you are hungry then you are Western-sponsored and they have brought that to public service #NoneButOurselves

Dr Zvakada: Those doctors who apologised are registrars in training, on our part we failed those doctors because their grievances are the same as our, our constituency was fatigue, we left them exposed to intimidation #NoneButOurselves

Dr Zvakada: It's so unfortunate that when one cries out for PPEs and then they appear to be apologising for demanding PPE, it shows that negotiation was not done in good faith there #NonButOurselves

Hlabangana: There is no problem with union becoming many, the problem is the government they try to ensure there are divisions, let's not allow them to continue dividing us we need to focus, and unity will lead us to success #NoneButOurselves

@OMasaraure : We will continue to defy unconstitutional laws that are being proposed, we have been defying POSA, the state is moving in to criminalise reporting abduction #NonButOuselves

@OMasaraure : The public sector has been taken away from us by the central government, they just want our tax but don't want us involved in the management of that tax #NoneButOurselves

@OMasaraure :The police are always allover beating the people because they are not part of us, imagine if the Member in Charge was to be voted for by the people they would not behave that way, imagine that when we go to elections we also vote for Member in Charge in our community

Dr Zvakada: Let us have fair wages, let's look at Labour Act, let's implement it was written to be kept somewhere, let's create room for dialogue #NoneButOurselves

Hlabangana: let's leave room to dialogue, lets domestic international treaties, the government must treat workers equally so that we survive #NoneButOurselves

@OMasaraure : Soldiers train for 6 months but they already receive a salary which is more than a teacher with a degree, imagine police recruit the moment they start toitoing in our towns they are already receiving a salary more than a student-teacher who has huge work-load