ZIMBABWE Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA) on Monday held a meeting to seek ways on how workers from the formal and informal sectors, residents associations as well as the Bulawayo City Council can work in developing communities.
BY SHARON SIBINDI/ NIZBERT MOYO
The meeting was attended by Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association and other stakeholders.
ZCIEA secretary, Wisborn Malaya said the meeting was aimed at finding ways stakeholders can work together to develop the community.
“The aim is to develop a relationship between workers and ZCIEA, BPRA,” he said.
“We are finding a way of collaborating with informal workers, who are residents. The council was not directly represented; we wanted to discuss how the council can negotiate good relations with ZCIEA.
“The meeting also sought to communicate the role ZCIEA can play to address the issue of the termed illegal traders with the view that they want to earn a living and need to be allocated space to operate from.”
Malaya said what was important was they continue to have stakeholder meetings, so that they influence development in society.
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Meanwhile, ZCTU Bulawayo region chairperson, Ambrose Sibindi said they have a memorandum of understanding with ZCIEA and it was a brainchild of the labour organisation.
“We want to work with ZCIEA as we are all workers because we contribute to gross domestic product (GDP), we are saying the government has to formalise them and if they are organised, this will bring peace.
“We want these people to come and participate, for example, in Workers’ Day and, women’s day [celebrations] and residents must be elected into ZCIEA.
“This problem started in 1990, as we started experiencing retrenchments and people were off-loaded and went to the streets,” he said.
