{{Malawi government has agreed to raise public workers’ salaries by 60 percent, ending a two-week old strike, a union leader said.}}<\/p>\n
Civil Service Trade Union (CSTU) president Eliah Kamphinda Banda told a press conference in the capital, Lilongwe, Thursday that his team has agreed with the government negotiating team to end the strike. <\/p>\n
Banda called on all civil servants to return to work Friday.<\/p>\n
According to the agreement, lowest-paid civil servants get a 61 percent pay hike while the highest paid have been given a 5 percent salary increase.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, police in Lilongwe and the commercial capital of Blantyre used tear gas to break up demonstrations by hundreds of school children. <\/p>\n
The students, from public primary and secondary schools, had gone two weeks without attending classes following the public workers’ strike.<\/p>\n
“We are marching to State House because we are not learning. … We are tired of not attending classes for two weeks,” said 15-year-old Ella Chilenje in Blantyre.<\/p>\n
The civil servants say last May’s 49 per cent devaluation of the Malawi currency, the kwacha, has eaten into their buying power.<\/p>\n
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