Dear Editor,
I am writing to you because I am very disappointed with my employers at INVESTRUST BANK PLC. It is very sad that we as unionised staff are complaining about our conditions of service when we are the people who do all the dirty work for our bosses. We are the ones who are showered with all kinds of insults from our clients.
Investrust bank our very own indigenous bank is in an increament crisis, I am writting to you as a unionised staff and my heart bleeds our bank management have offered us a salary increament of 8% compared to what we are asking 30%. As unionised staff our salaries range from 2600-5000 gross pay no housing allowance and no other incentives nothing at all so if a member of staff is offered 8% meaning the lowest unionised gets 208 and the highest gets 400 increament what difference will that make we have families to look after to feed to send to school and rent to pay we work very hard but we are barely surviving our proposal of 30%will make a substantial difference. Our Management offered themselves a 10% increament we have some people in management getting as much as 90,000 so a 10% makes a huge difference.
They award themselves hefty loans as much as 2million house loans and yet not even a quater of us unionised staff own our own homes why because we don’t qualify, our union execitive looks like it has been bought and i feel they are not even fit to talk on our behalf because they are not telling us the truth Enough is enough we are the ones who do the work to make the bank what it is today but nothing to show for it . Please ba Tumfweko help us expose the hypocrites.
They do not think of us and our affairs. We have been putting on Black outfit for the past three weeks now because we are not happy with the 8% that they’re offering but it’s like all our pleas and cries have fallen on deaf ears. Awe twachula pafula.
Twanaka.
From Invest Trust Worker