The National Union of Angola Workers-Syndicate Federation (UNTA-CS) said on Monday it would go ahead with a civil service strike starting on Tuesday and ending on Thursday, LUSA reported. The decision was approved by affiliate unions in the capital Luanda, in response to the government’s failure to raise the sector’s minimum wage to the equivalent of US$ 300 per month, among other demands. Union negotiator Manuel Viaje told media after the announcement that the government had considered the wage demand to be “unthinkable and unworkable” due to the difficult domestic situation. “The assembly considered that the vital questions of our demands have not been satisfied and thus decided to go ahead with the strike,” he added. The work stoppage was set to begin on Tuesday morning.
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