FOA threatens to strike #namibia

Staff from the troubled Fisheries
Observer Agency (FOA) employed at Walvis Bay
and Lüderitz have threatened to go on a strike this
week to press for their annual salary increment
and for the immediate implementation of the
salary structure for the FOA.
This was revealed by FOA sources that visited
New Era last week to express their
disappointment with the fisheries observer
agency.
Angry observers said they have not received any
increment for this year and have lost faith in the
management of the FAO.
"We have not received our annual increment as
negotiations could not take place, and to make
matters worse we are operating without board
members as the term of the previous board of
directors lapsed," one FOA observer told New
Era.
The observers jointly went on to say that they
are also unhappy with the delay in the
implementation of the FOA's salary structure.
"We feel like orphans left on the sidewalk as
nothing has been done to resolve our issues at
hand," one of the disappointed observers said.
A letter copied to New Era indicates that the now
dissolved FOA board of directors, during a
meeting held in August last year requested that
the union representative of the observers grant
them time until February this year to address
challenges that were preventing the immediate
implementation of the contentious salary
structure.
"Time has lapseed and no one is coming