{"id":9928,"date":"2019-07-04T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T08:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=9928"},"modified":"2019-07-04T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T08:27:26","slug":"ubc-staff-threaten-to-strike-over-salary-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/04\/ubc-staff-threaten-to-strike-over-salary-arrears\/","title":{"rendered":"UBC Staff Threaten To Strike Over Salary Arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports\ncoming in from Nile Avenue based Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) is the\nusual outcry about unpaid salaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite\ngovernment efforts to rejuvenate the national broadcaster with a whooping\nShs20Bn that was injected in UBC buy the ministry of finance, things are not\nthat rosy yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snoops\nreveal that junior staffers are crying foul after going three months without\npay. We hear some junior staffers were planning to petition the Speaker of\nparliament Rebecca Kadaga to intervene before staging a strike next week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An\ninsider revealed that some workers tried to meet the new Board of Directors but\nwere blocked by top bosses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\nis revealed that top Managers and other bosses are paid through the Ministry of\nICT and National Guidance yet other staffers are left to wait for their salary\nfrom UBC, yet the entity is still struggling to attract revenue which they can\nuse to pay salaries of presenters and other technical people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports coming in from Nile Avenue based Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) is the usual outcry about unpaid salaries. Despite government efforts to rejuvenate the national broadcaster with a whooping Shs20Bn that was injected in UBC buy the ministry of finance, things are not that rosy yet. Snoops reveal that junior staffers are crying foul after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":9929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9930,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions\/9930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}