Civil Servants Trade Union has threatened to mobilise all civil servants in Malawi to go on strike in solidarity with their counterparts in the judiciary.

Judiciary employees have been boycotting work for a month now pressing the executive to implement their new salary packages approved by parliament in 2006.

The Judiciary Act stipulates that conditions of service of the Chief Justice and workers in the judicially are subject to review and endorsement by the National Assembly every three years.

CSTU Secretary General Elijah Kamphinda Banda confirmed to Zodiak Radio of the impending sit-in.

“We have communicated to the chief secretary on a number of pertinent issues which required immediate action but nothing has materialised so we think its high time we joined our friends," said Kamphinda Banda.

Kamphinda Banda said they have given government three days from Monday to act on the judiciary staff demand.

“We are giving government Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and thereafter we will ask civil servants country wide to boycott work,” he said.

But government spokesperson Patricia Kaliati said CSTU is not justified in its threats.

“If they are planning to join the strike just know that they have failed because as civil service union it is a bridge between government and civil servants.

“They do not know what they are supposed to be doing. For them to say they are joining the strike it’s a just a shame to them,” said Kaliati.

It is yet to be seen if the threat by CSTU will yield anything considering that the executive has maintained that the strike is illegal