CDC WORKERS ENTER 30 DAYS WITHOUT SALARIES

• Interim Government Updates
• August 23, 2022

CDC Workers Enter 30th Month Without Pay

It is a fundamental rights for a worker to receive payment for work done. This payment in normalcy should be regular and complete within the stipulated period. But this is not the case with the colonial state company, the CDC. The Cameroon Development Cooperation (CDC) is an agrobusiness company and its general offices are in Bota, a locality in Limbe State of Southern Cameroons. The CDC is yet to pay the wages of thousands of her workers for 30 months now. The colonial La Republique du Cameroun administration keeps a sealed lips about the plight of these Southern Cameroonians.

This is an exploitation tendency that must be condemned. Owing workers who solely depend on their wages as a source of livelihood is killing them and their children slowly. How can a company created to foster development is the one promoting underdevelopment? Is it not one of the scheme of LRC to render Southern Cameroonians miserable and not able to educate their children, given that school resumption is in few days? Thousands of workers of the Cameroon Development Cooperation, the CDC, the country's second largest employer have entered the 30th month without pay.

The disgruntled workers now decry what their term, the insensitivity of the State to their plight, due to the backlog of unpaid wages and some other benefits. CDC is a company runned by the colonial LRC, and for 30 months and counting is unable to pay wages of thousands of her employees. The workers are appealing to the colonial Yaounde regime to device a means of getting money to offset the over two years owed salaries, allowances and other entitlements so as to reduce the agony and suffering they endured since 2018.

These frustrating workers say,

"Children at risks of not going to school as the academic year begins in less than two weeks."

They equally accuse management for prioritizing contractors' bills, ignoring plight of workers.

 

To compel the colonial government of Paul to address their worries, the unpaid workers of CDC reiterate plan to embark on an indefinite strike come September 1, 2022.