Union writes to ZCTU

Medical Professional and Allied Workers Union
1st floor Crossroads Building
No, 43 Julius Nyerere Way
Tele 04704209, 0772908847
Email mpawuz@gmail.com ,www.http//mpawuz.blogspot.com

Harare

21 March 2011

The Secretary General
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)
Chester House
88 Speke Avenue

Harare


ATTENTION COMRADE CHIBHEBHE
RE: COMMITMENT TO AFFILIATION TO ZCTU
The above matter refers
The Medical Professional and Allied Workers Union would like to restate its commitment to re- affiliate to ZCTU, this is in pursuit of a process that was initiated in late 2007 that you responded to in January 2008 see attached copy of your letter.
We would want to apologise for seemingly not regarding the stated rudiments in the letter, however please accept our humble submission that it was not because we deliberately decided not to nor did we at anytime have a change of mind in respect to affiliating to ZCTU.The problem as you may recall, is that the succeeding period from your letter was a period of untold economic hardships which no single Trade Union in Zimbabwe was spared and worse to smaller unions like ours .We faced intermittent operating challenges that literally brought down the union. We faced a massive exodus of Union leaders looking for opportunities in neighbouring countries leaving a leadership vacuum and no one was there to pursue the matter. We have since restructured the Union and we are proud that we have succeeded to recuperate and bring things to standard.
As we return to normalcy, one among our top priorities is finalising our affiliation to ZCTU which has always been our dream. For the foregoing, we seek your guidance as to whether we need to start afresh the process we had done in 2007 or we simply respond to requirements in your attached letter.
ALSO TAKE NOTICE that we have since moved from No. 90 A Zim- Rights House to No, 43 Julius Nyerere Way , Crossroads Building , Harare .
Also accept our heartfelt gratitude for the solidarity you gave us during the period when we and others were callously incarcerated by the regime and charged with treason. We had two of our members involved.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon

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M Sambo ( General Secretary )