Industrial action at Harare City Council

Workers collectively withdraw labour, work to rule or take other protest action, or a formal notice of such action is served.

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What happened, in plain words

Council staff started working only two or three days a week after missing their December 2024 and January 2025 salaries. Their union said the council was breaking a rule requiring wages to be paid by the 28th of each month. Workers also wanted an end to staggered payments where some staff are paid before others. Refuse collection, clinics and water services in the capital all depend on these workers.

Not stated

People reported

The source did not give a countable number, so none is shown

4 February 2025

Date of the event

high

Confidence in the record

How the number was arrived at

No figure for the number of participating council workers was reported

Evidence

Field	Value
Source	NewZimbabwe.com
Link	https://www.newzimbabwe.com/harare-city-council-workers-stage-go-slow-after-two-months-without-salaries/
Source last opened by the platform	Never checked
Evidence retrieved	20 August 2026
Fingerprint of the source page	Not taken. The page has not been read successfully.
Published by the source on	4 February 2025
Employer	Harare City Council
Sector	Public Sector & Government
Where	Harare, Harare
Status on this platform	verified
Counted in published figures	Yes

Zimbabwe Municipalities Nurses and Allied Workers Union led the action, citing Statutory Instrument 13 of 2015 on payment dates.

The rule this record had to meet

Workers collectively withdraw labour, work to rule or take other protest action, or a formal notice of such action is served.

Evidence required: A named union or worker group, the dates of the action or the notice, and the stated demands, from the union itself or an established publication.

Read thisWorkforce events are a record of what a named and citable source reported. They are not a census of job losses or job creation in Zimbabwe. Many changes in employment are never announced, and small employers are almost never reported at all, so the picture here leans towards large employers, listed companies, the public service and unionised sectors. Read the evidence link on any event before relying on it.

As at 5 Oct 2026, 13:44. Method version unknown.