As the new contract doesn’t bring back the defined-benefit pension plan that got frozen nearly ten years ago, it does improve the matching contributions for employees’ 401(k) plans. The average yearly salary for machinists is expected to jump from $75,608 to $119,309 over the course of the contract.
In an equitable society, everyone should have equal access to these government institutions to allow equal competition but to also limit interference with these institutions.
The chairperson of ‘Let’s Fight Illiteracy and Ignorance’ and the Uganda Association of the Uneducated Persons, John Bukenya, has urged the opposition members of the parliament to stop politicizing the Uganda Coffee Bill that seeks to rationalize the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries (MAAIF).