The workers at the United Nations (UN) base at Entebbe in East Africa have threatened to stage a sit down strike soon over what they term as ‘serious’ exploitation by their employees.
The UN staff members attached to the cleaning department wants to protest UN’s recent decision to tender out the cleaning services at Entebbe base to a Ugandan private company.
The workers allege that the new company reduced their pay. The workers say that when the UN tendered the cleaning services to this private company, called Safi Cleaners Limited, they were told that the tender would not affect their work.
But Safi Cleaners Limited recently reduced their monthly wages from 700,000 to 120,000 shillings per month. The workers who wanted to remain anonymous in this article said Safi Cleaners Limited has even refused to give them appointment letters and medical insurance.
Our efforts to get comment from the UN facility Camp management boss, Disham Beepath were fruitless by press time as his phone showed that it was busy.
The United Nations service base Spokesperson; Slobodan Kotevesk says that they recently resolved to outsource the services of cleaning services as per UN regulations.
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