THERE was confusion and a near punch-up among eight mineworkers’ unions at Kitwe’s garden court hotel yesterday morning after five of the unions accused the other three of hypocrisy and working in isolation. Miners and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) president Kelvin Namunji and four other unions had just finished their press briefing when Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia president Joseph Chewe and National Union of Miners and Allied Workers president Saul Simujika stormed the meeting refuting the accusations made against them. Chewe got in a heated argument with Mine Contractors, Factory and Allied Workers Union General Secretary Levi Chimfwembe while saying “these are idiots”, requiring intervention from the other union leaders present. “These are idiots, and if you the media people...