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The workers are now appealing to the Government to intervene and save their jobs.
The new company, Bhola Hardware, is owned by Mr Anton Lamb and is undergoing renovations.
He took over the company from Mr Rowland Johnson, who has since left the country.
Workers Committee Chairperson Mr Andrew Chikwamu said: “We are appealing for the government to bail us out of the predicament. We felt short-changed since we served the company over a decade and had to endure the economic hardships, we failed to keep our children at school since we were not receiving our salaries.”
Mr Chikwamu said the new management has professed ignorance over the workers plight.
However, the general manager, Mr Hilton Dzapasi, said that plans were under way to reconsider the disgruntled workers.
“We are definitely going to consider the workers since we will be starting operations any time soon”, he said.
However, Zanu PF’s Secretary for production and labour DCC 4 castigated the behaviour of the whites at the company for perpetrating people’s suffering in the country.
“The country has benefited nothing since all the profits the company had acquired was repatriated to their mother countries,” he said.
“Cases of workers who had served a white man’s company for more than 25 years are on the rampant and they are force-marched out of the company empty handed.”
Alka Paints workers have not received their salaries since July 2007.
Online Reporter