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The women in Dwangwa with the help from IUF women project have helped sensitize the masses to fight gender based violence. During the month of January 2023 to July 2023 there were four cases of suicide Many families in Dwangwa were going through problems in their marriages. “We engaged the people in Dwangwa and sensitized […]

Hotel Food Processing and Catering Workers Union (HFPCWU) have signed a Sexual Harassment Policy. This event took place at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe. The sexual harassment policy was developed with input from both the management and the union. Speaking at the signing ceremony the general manager of Crossroads Hotel thanked the union for their input

The management  of Chibuku Products Limited and the shopstewards have signed a wage bargaining agreement for 2024. In the agreement the salaries have been increased with the least grade getting 23% and highest grade getting 15%. The company has also increased leave grant by a slightly higher percentage. The general increment is effective 1st September

The Hotels Union Gender machinery committee met in Mangochi on 15th September 2023 to formulate their Term and References. the workshop attracted gender machinery committee and the women’s committee members. The gender machinery is composed of 8 members from different branches with the national gender officer from secretariat.  

Hotel Food Processing and Catering Workers Union (HFPCWU) today donated relief items to people in Chief Nsomo in Chikwawa district. The clothes comprised all type of clothing. The Vice General Secretary Jane Mwase was moved by the situation many families in the affected areas are going through. She raised this at the just ended IUF

“Trade Union is a very important organisation whose main aim is to bring industrial peace at a workplace.  A place that does not hold talks with its workforce is not a healthy environment. Management should be able to engage the workforce for their contributions.” Those words were said by the president of Hotel Food Processing

IUF women’s project is changing lives at the working place. Adaine Kazembe the vice general secretary of Sugar Plantation and Allied Workers Union Malawi said this during the National Project Coordinating Committee meeting held at Chilembwe Lodge on Saturday 1st July 2023. She said as women at the workplace they were facing challenges like sexual

Reserve Bank of Malawi who are the pension administrators in the country are holding pension awareness meetings in the country for Malawi Congress of Trade Unions (MCTU) affiliates. These meetings have started today in Blantyre at Victoria Hotels, in Lilongwe at Simama Hotel and in Zomba at Mango Lodge. At each meeting about 50 people

HFPCWU – Hotel food processing and catering workers union today held a gender awareness meeting at Crossroads Lilongwe.  The workshop is for two days. The workshop has attracted 24 participants from the branches of HFPCWU in Lilongwe. The leader facilitator at the workshop is the gender activist who is also the deputy education officer at