Mozambique: Workers Again Threaten to Go On Strike

Maputo — The United Association of Mozambican Health Workers (APSUSM) has once again threatened strike action in pursuit of wage demands.

Cited by the Portuguese news agency Lusa, APSUSM chairperson Anselmo Muchave on Wednesday attacked the government’s decision to pay its employees only 40 per cent of the traditional end-of-year bonus.

The bonus is payment of an extra month of the basic wage, and so it is commonly known as “the thirteenth month’.

The government has announced that it cannot…