Employees of the National Housing Enterprise (NHE) will embark on a legal strike on Friday following a wage negotiation deadlock.

The Public Service Union of Namibia (PSUN) Deputy Secretary General, Ujama Kaahangoro, guaranteed workers' protection should anything arise as a result of the industrial action.

90% of NHE employees voted in favor of a strike two weeks ago after the entity failed to give them a once-off payment.

Kaahangoro, during a media briefing, raised questions on the "no work, no pay" principle, which he says is being applied by employers as a weapon to prevent employees from exercising their legal rights.

The two parties have signed an agreement stipulating the ground rules of the strike, which also entails that the "no work, no pay" principle will apply for the duration of the strike for participating employees.

Kaahangoro indicated that the union has crafted its own strategies to avert any effects on the members at the end of the strike.

"We will apply those strategies at the appropriate time and on the appropriate platforms when we have to do so, which will put us in an awkward position to reveal what strategies we are going to apply as we do not want to awaken sleepy dogs. But we will ensure that workers do not lose out at the end of the day, and we have also committed our own members to understand that this is their own cost and that they should be prepared for anything if the employer continues to apply the no work, no pay principle. Workers should not expect to win anything, they may lose, but we have our own means to engage our employers and to put our conditions to avert the the no work no pay."