Catholic Bishops warn of danger of social upheaval due to Single Wage Scale

Bispos católicos alertam para perigo de convulsões sociais devido à Tabela Salarial Única

The Episcopal Conference of Mozambique warns that the issue of the Single Wage Table (TSU) can lead to social upheaval and aggravate the feeling of inequality and injustice, if not well managed.

For political analysts the issue raised by the Catholic bishops can be resolved if there is humility on the part of the government.

"This process, if not well managed, can lead to social upheaval and exacerbate the sense of inequality and injustice; without real social inclusion, our peace and social cohesion will always be threatened," said Bishop João Carlos Nunes of Chimoio, Manica.

He mentioned that everything must be done so that this process does not create feelings of injustice for groups that consider themselves marginalized, and added that the cost of living "continues to drag into extreme poverty, men and women who are already suffering, who have been facing a real martyrdom to put bread on the table.

The question is how can the government get out of this crossroads in which it finds itself, and some believe that, perhaps, with a little humility, the mechanisms for dialogue can be found, as wide-ranging as possible, so that the errors detected can be corrected.

This is because, according to political analyst Fernando Lima, it seems that in the claims themselves, there is a lot of opportunism and issues that, eventually, there will be difficulties for the TSU to solve, "since they are issues that go completely against the goal of this wage scale.

Lima notes that "the TSU is to fix salaries and eliminate as much as possible, the subsidies that have been patched up, that over the years, have been put in place and given and allocated to the most diverse professional sectors of the state."

In this sense, the TSU aims, in a way, to eliminate a large part of the subsidies and give more stability to the employee's salaries, that is, what the employee must count on as established and as something that has no retroactivity, and eliminate elements of precariousness and instability such as the subsidies.

In his turn, the journalist and political analyst Tomás Vieira Mário, quoted by VOA, is of the opinion that the government should negotiate case by case, but in a way that shows openness and predisposition to correct what can be corrected, "in a pedagogical way, to show that it has limitations derived from the agreements on macroeconomic and fiscal control that it has with the International Monetary Fund.

Since the TSU went into effect, various professional sectors, from doctors to teachers, from judges to magistrates, have shown their opposition to the scale and threatened strikes and protests.

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