There was drama at one of Harares brick-making companies, Willdale Bricks, when workers wives picketed the factory yesterday demanding their spouses outstanding salaries.
Sixteen women danced and sang at the firms premises along Lomagundi Road, accusing the company of failing to pay their husbands over the last two months.
Our husbands have not been paid for two months yet they are working and today we want a solution. We want them to tell us what we must do with our children, said a woman who only identified herself as Mai Susan.
The women were, however, later whisked away and locked up in a security control room where they were ordered to stop singing and wait to be addressed by the companys management.
We have been locked inside the room so that clients do not see us demonstrating by the gate, but the human resources manager has said they are looking into the issue and we are likely to be given $50 each today although the salary arrears are around $500, said one of the women.
The firms human resources manager Munozivaishe Mandangu could not neither confirm nor deny the this.
I am not the person responsible to give a comment on this issue, it is only the chief executive officer who can give a statement and he is currently away, said Mandangu.
Well, I have seen the women outside. We are going to deal with this matter as soon as possible.
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The brick-making firm was founded in 1957 and listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in March 2003 following its demerger from Mashonaland Holdings Limited.
