Urafiki Textile Mill

How is Mr.Jakaya Kikwete as a president of Tanzania, going to deal or help to solve of Urafiki Textile Mill problem? The huge losses in production has an impact on Tanzania economy, plus the hundreds of families depend on the incomes of these urafiki workers.




...400 workers of the Tanzania-China Friendship Textile Mill in Dar es Salaam have striked against the management to return to work by 12.30 pm on January 31, 2008, forcing the factory management to lock them out.


Instead of trying to find solutions of how to enable the workers of Urafiki Textile Mill keep on working and get into some dialogs, then management decides to close down the factory!





The notice, signed by Huang Lian, the mill`s general manager, stated that the factory activities had been halted and no work would resume until all matters pertaining to the strike had been sorted out between the management and the Tanzania Union of Industrial and Commercial Workers (TUICO).




"They are not going to go back to work for Urafiki factory under these circumstances until a 150,000/- pay rise starting January as announced by the government is given."