Kenyatta National Hospital where workers have threatened to down their
tools in the first week of August due to what they say is non-payment of
their health service allowances. PHOTO | FRANCIS NDERITU | NATION MEDIA
GROUP
Workers at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) have threatened
to down their tools in the first week of August due to what they say is
non-payment of their health service allowances.
Through
their umbrella body, Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational
Institutions, Hospitals and Allied Workers (Kudheiha), they have written
to the KNH chief executive officer informing the administration of
their impending industrial action.
The letter was in
response to a botched meeting slated for July 10, with workers accusing
the management of not providing an alternative date to sort out the
stalemate.
The union’s secretary general Albert Njeru
said the hospital’s management had demanded afresh for items in dispute
despite having knowledge of the same for a while now.
It
is under the current circumstance that they have decided to lift the
suspended strike notice. The workers now plan to start their work
stoppage on August 6.
“We issued the strike notice on
May 19, 2017 on the non-payment but it was suspended after a conciliator
was appointed by the chief industrial relations officer, Ministry of
Labour to conciliate the matter,” said Mr Njeru.
He
said it was regrettable the union suspended its strike to pave way for
the process and to allow the management to effect pay for members who
had not received their revised house allowances yet to date, the
allowances have not been harmonised.
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