RETRENCHMENTS surged by nearly 40 percent in 2014, with nearly 4,000 workers retrenched across all sectors of the economy as company closures accelerated, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has said.

Wellington Chibebe, the former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) Secretary General, continued to raise the country's flag high at the international level, earning another four year term as the Deputy General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).

The Zimbabwe Urban Councils Workers Union (ZUCWU) is crying foul over the Joseph Chinotimba led, Zimbabwe Urban and rural Councils' Workers Union (ZARWU) which tricked the former by misrepresenting them in Mutare by circulating renunciation forms.