KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) \u2014 At least 400 Ugandan workers at a Chinese-owned construction company went on strike Tuesday to protest alleged sexual harassment by managers and poor pay.
The angry employees staged a demonstration outside the offices of the state-owned China Railway Seventh Group in Uganda\u2019s capital, Kampala.
One of the workers, Agnes Namusisi, said managers pay employees who agree to their sexual advances.
\u201cI have not been paid for the last three months because I refused sexual advances from my boss,\u201d Namusisi said.
The alleged mistreatment also includes long hours and supervisors beating workers who are delayed getting to their jobs, she said.
Kampala\u2019s Kawembe division\u2019s Town Clerk Geoffrey Rwakabale said the road construction work that China Railway Seventh Group was hired to do has been suspended for three days pending the outcome of discussions between city authorities and company managers.
\u201cWe have decided that workers temporarily stop working until Thursday as we engage the managers of the company,\u201d Turwakabale said
Kampala Mayor Erias Lukwago said the city would consider \u201cblacklisting\u201d the Chinese company, if it doesn\u2019t address the workers\u2019 concerns.
The World Bank canceled a 225-kilometer (140-mile) road construction project in western Uganda worth $265 million in December 2015 after a review found evidence of misconduct by a government contractor, including sexual harassment of female workers and road workers having sex with minors.
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