From: "Y Yaobang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: The failure of AGOA in Museveni's Uganda Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:49:49 +0000
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--- Begin Message --->From: "emmanuel musaazi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: ugnet_: The failure of AGOA in Museveni's Uganda >Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:48:07 -0500 > >Netters this "Agoa girls" situation is a classic example of why >Africa is where it is. Firstly some of us on this medium have been >vehemently accusing the president of working against programs and/or >policies that favour third world countries, case in point is the >failed cancun talks where President Museveni was accused of siding >with industrialized countries. Well this AGOA program is one of >those programs which is supposed to benefit third world countries >and which other third world countries are signitories to (including >Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya etc) to name a few. Yet most of you again >are turning around to accuse the Government of introducing "SLAVERY" >programs to Uganda, you can't eat your cake and have it. > >Secondly, the so called "Agoa girls" should have been educated to >the fact that we are in a global economy right now, which means that >if the factory can't work in Uganda it will work in China, if not >China, then India, if not India then Bangladesh. That means that >even though they have a right to protest and contest the conditions >of work, they ought to have done it in a more CIVILIZED MANNER, so >that they win both ways, in other words they get to keep their jobs >and also have conditions of work improved. Right now they have lost >completely, because they have no jobs, so they are far worse off >than where they were before. Plus the company maybe moved to some >other destination, luckly in Uganda or unluckly to some other >country. Besides they also had the option of resigning, to me their >actions were rather selfish because they may have closed >oportunities for others. The action of the police was very right, >the moment they barrackeded themselves in the building and >threatened to set it ablaze, they had fallen afoul of the law and >left the police with little choice than to forcefully evict them. > >Thirdly, those of you that are shouting about "SLAVERY" are working >under far worse conditions in BRITAIN, GERMANY, SPAIN, DUBAI, >AMERICA, etc and not complaining. Who is worse off, at least the >"Agoa girls" are in there country unlike those of you who are "REALY >SLAVES" in foreign countries. At least they are not cleaning >toilets, and prostituting all over the world and then coming home >to decieve their relatives that they are big shots. How true are the >late Bob Marley's lyrics "emancipate yourselves from mental >slavery", in other words it is ok to go to BRITAIN or DEBAI AND BE >SUBJECTED TO SLAVE LIKE CONDITIONS OF WORK, BECAUSE YOU ARE DOING IT >FOR "BAZUNGU" BUT WHEN YOU ARE IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY IN A HONEST JOB, >BUT EARNING LOW PAY, YOU ARE A SLAVE. MAY GOD SAVE US FROM >OURSELVES, AMEN. > > >>From: "Chris Opoka-Okumu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: ugnet_: The failure of AGOA in Museveni's Uganda >>Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:16:41 -0400 >> >> This indeed is the much vaunted "modernization and >>transformation"!!! Phew!!! Obote is right. This government is >>bankrupt of ideas of governace and management of the economy. They >>can only survive on plagiarization and since there was no AGOA in >>the 1980s, there was nothing to pliagiarize. Hence their bankruptcy >>of ideas on the much hyped AGOA. Read on. Katumba Wamala abuses >>the office of IG of Policer to intervene on purely contracual >>matterrs outside jurisdiction of police in private relations. AGOA >>indeed!! My foot. >> >> COO >> >> Agoa girls sacked >> By Simon Kasyate & Lominda Afedraru >> Oct 23, 2003 >> >> >> ** Police boss Wamala ends strike >> ** They survived on doughnuts and water >> >> KAMPALA - More than 1,000 young women who were on >>strike at a local textile factory have been fired. >> >> The firm, which produces and exports textiles to the >>United States under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, Agoa, >>has also been closed temporarily. >> The employees, believed to be more than 1,000, and >>popularly known as Agoa girls, were sacked following a two-day >>strike at the Apparel Tri-Star factory in Bugolobi, Kampala. >> >> The head of the company, Mr V. Kananathan, wrote to Dr >>David Ogaram, the commissioner for labour in the Ministry of >>Gender, Labour and Social Development, yesterday confirming the >>sacking. >> >> "In light of the [strike], we have been forced to take >>a very painful decision, which is to terminate the services of all >>our production staff summarily due to unbecoming conduct," the >>official wrote in his letter. >> >> Kananathan said the strike had disrupted the >>operations of the company, leading to "irreparable damage" to its >>reputation and operations. >> >> The letter also announced the temporary closure of the >>factory. "In view of the recent strike undertaken by our employees, >>we have decided to temporarily close down the factory," Kananathan >>wrote. >> >> The official, who was not available for comment, said >>the girls would be paid all their outstanding arrears as of Monday. >> >> Strike ends >> >> The sacking of the girls came after Inspector General >>of Police Katumba Wamala ended the strike yesterday. >> >> The girls had been protesting low pay, poor working >>conditions and reports that some of them were about to be sacked. >> >> They also said that they were being forced to share a >>dormitory and toilet facilities with males. >> >> On Tuesday morning, the girls barricaded themselves >>inside the dormitory and refused to come out, despite appeals from >>management and police. Then Maj. Gen. Wamala turned up at around >>midday yesterday with a truckload of anti-riot cops. For close to >>an hour, he urged the girls to call off the strike. >> >> Some of them told The Monitor that when they refused >>to open, Wamala ordered his squad to storm. >> >> The police boss reportedly had asked the girls to end >>the strike while he brokers a meeting between them and the >>management of Tri-Star, which is run with government support. >> >> That meeting had been scheduled for Saturday and the >>girls had threatened to burn the factory if the decision made did >>not go their way. >> >> The Tri-Star management has refused to comment on the >>strike since it began. >> The police chief did not speak to reporters as he >>drove out of the factory premises. >> >> About 1,400 girls spent more than 24 hours inside the >>dormitory before the strike ended. >> >> After the locks to the dorm were broken yesterday, >>several girls emerged looking hungry and haggard and dashed to >>nearby shops to grab a bite. >> >> Some of the girls, who spoke to The Monitor on >>condition of anonymity, said they had survived on doughnuts and >>water from a fire hose. >> >> >> >> >> � 2003 The Monitor Publications >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> East African | About Us | Feedback | Site Map | License | >>Monitor Mail >> > >_________________________________________________________________ >STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > >-------------------------------------------- >This service is hosted on the Infocom network >http://www.infocom.co.ugEmmanuel,
You, yourself, are not in Uganda, are you? Dont lie now!
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