Workers locked the main entrance at about 06:00am and blocked vehicles carrying staff to the mine.
Geita. More than 600 G4S company employees at Geita Gold Mine (GGM) have put down their tools and locked the main entrance to the mine in protest to poor wages and mistreatment by management.
Workers locked the main entrance at about 06:00am and blocked vehicles carrying staff to the mine.
Passage to the mine was unblocked after police officers and Geita District Commissioner Manzie Mangochie arrived at the mine and spoke to the striking security workers.
Speaking at the mine today, the striking workers claimed that they were being mistreated by the G4S company leadership at Geita, saying that was the main source of their strike.
Banob Adrea and Idd Muhoji, who are part of the striking workers, said they reached the decision after their complaints that were presented to their leadership failed to bear fruit, expressing that any workers who demanded their rights respected face expulsion .
Muhoji noted that the G4S leadership had been paying salaries to the workers contrary to their job contracts, saying they had agreed to each received Sh150,000 per month but instead they received Sh 75,000 to 80,000 per month.
“We reached the agreement to work for 26 days per month, but these leaders allow many off days to deny a worker of his right payment, you find yourself working for 11 or 13 days and working for eight hours per day but at the end of the day you have no salary after they have made calculations for days and hours at work,” said Andrea.
