Speaker 1: On This Day and Working Class History the twenty fifth
Speaker 1: of January film and on the twenty fifth of January
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, over five hundred workers at the Dangote
Speaker 1: Industry Zambia cement plant near Endola launched a wildcat strike
Speaker 1: demanding a pay increase. The workers, who were subcontractors employed
Speaker 1: by Cylonda Engineering, had been offered a fifteen per cent
Speaker 1: pay increase, but instead they demanded an increase in their
Speaker 1: monthly minimum wage from one thousand quatcha up to two thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred quatcha. The strike ended on the twenty eighth
Speaker 1: of January when the employer agreed to increase all workers'
Speaker 1: wages by one thousand quacha.
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