Indian workers go on strike in Zambia

LUSAKA: Heated industrial disputes, strikes and protest demonstrations by workers are as old as mining itself in Zambia. Even so the industrial unrest that shook the copper mining town of Chingola a week before Labour Day commemorations was unpararelled.

The aggrieved workers were not Zambian but Indian - 360 strong.
They downed tools to press for improved pay, living and other conditions of service. Despite persuasion, threats and the involvement of Zambia police, the Indians would not budge. 

For, four days running they would not resume work insisting on improvements in their pay and living conditions.

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