Operations at the Mombasa Port ground to a halt yesterday after the more than 5,000 workers, who are members of the Dock Workers Union (DWU), went on strike to protest the new National Hospital Insurance Fund rates.
The strike started at the stroke of midnight in response to a call by their umbrella union, Trade Unions Congress of Kenya (TUC-Ke), which has termed the new rates as exploitative and unilateral.