Outrage over law limiting strikes to five daysHealth workers' strike in December 2016. ?Anxiety has greeted a new proposal in Parliament that would restrict to five-day strikes by workers providing essential services.Key unionists have labelled the proposals "ill intended" as the public is set to have a say on strikes. SEE ALSO :Five flights cancelled as aviation workers’ strike bitesIchung'wa wants clinical officers, air traffic controllers, sanitation workers, meteorologists, marine and port navigational workers, electricity service workers and telecommunication service workers to be subjects of the law. Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KPMDU) Secretary General Ouma Olluga termed the bill 'a waste of time.' Kenya National Union of Teachers Secretary General Wilson Sossion and his Kenya Aviation Workers Union counterpart Moss Ndiema also faulted the proposal.

Source: Standard Digital April 25, 2019 05:24 UTC