TODAY’S workers are not living in an age of rising prosperity. Poverty remains on the rise because workers no longer have a disposable income to talk about. Wages and prices for basic needs are chasing each other. Fuel prices have been pushed several times higher than ever imagined. Today, it’s just as hard for a low earning worker to survive as it is for an unemployed citizen. This Labour Day, we are reminded that Zambians earning a living as teachers, health care workers, restaurant employees, retail workers, hospitality staff, police officers and countless others are still labouring to barely survive. A majority of our labourers today are highly indebted, making it hard for them to do anything meaningful to pull...