I greet you all in the name of our Lord, who continue to protect and guide us at a time when workers across the country are facing trying times. It is again that time of the year where we look back and reflect on the journey that we have travelled…
More than 200 representatives from 70 energy trade unions across the globe met in Russia on the 25 and 26 July this year under the IndustriALL banner demanding a just transition to protect the rights and living standards of workers as the energy industry experiences massive change. The unions from…
TWO top ZEWU officials Peter Shotere and Martin Chikuni attended the 16th Congress of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in South Africa which was held from the 21st to the 23rd of June 2018. Shotere is the union 1st Trustee while Chikuni is the general secretary. Shotere spoke highly…
The Zimbabwe Energy Workers Union has expressed shock by the sudden death of its member Sylvia Maphosa on August 1, 2018 during political disturbances which rocked Harare after the harmonised elections. Maphosa was a staunch member of the union employed by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) in the human…
For the first time since Congress in 2016, the National Council which is the highest decision-making body of the union in between congresses, met on the 15th of April 2018 in Kariba at Cutty Sark Hotel. Below are key resolutions made by the National Council; Council unanimously endorsed the decision…
Zimbabwe Energy Workers Union has finally decided to re-join the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) after breaking ranks with the federation in 2011. The decision was unanimously taken at the union’s National Council meeting which was held in Kariba in April 2018. ZEWU acting president, Mike Steamer Ndlovu…
The chairperson of the education, training and organising committee Nqabeni Nkala said members should guard against yellow unions to safeguard the gains fought over many years of struggle. Nkala is the union’s second trustee and is one of the longest serving members of the union having joined its ranks in…
ZEWU’s national treasurer, Knowledge Siriva said all eyes are set on developing the union’s Meyrick Park stand in Melbereign as one way of ensuring that the organisation achieves self-reliance. The up market stand was acquired in 2010 at a cost of US $32 000 to develop ZEWU labour college with…
Following the dismissal of Angeline Chitambo as president of the Zimbabwe Energy Workers Union (ZEWU) over allegations of usurping powers of the National Executive, fraud and running the union as her private business, Mike Steamer Ndlovu (MSN) was appointed acting president by the National Council on the 15th of April…
From the time she joined the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority in 1990, Joyce Masiya was keen to join the trade union which was only three years old by then. Not long in her search, she was relieved when the union’s first general secretary and founder of the union, Albeit Mtengwa…
