By COLLINS KWENYU
Thousands of workers of the second largest supermarket chain in Kenya have gone on strike.
They downed their tools on December 19 demanding better pay.
The workers placed placards in all the supermarket’s walls and doors protesting against ‘poor working conditions’.
Speaking to The Nairobian, some of the employees vowed not to return to work until their demands are met.
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“ We are paid peanuts. Imagine no employee here earns more than Sh15,000. How do they expect us to survive?,” one of the employees posed.
Last week, the workers, through the Kenya Union of Commercial Good and Allied Workers Union, had vowed to paralyze operations of the 50 supermarket outlets across the country until Tuskys management agrees to sign a contested collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
The union’s secretary general Boniface Kavuvi had issued a seven-day ultimatum failure to which they would resort to Industrial action.
Meanwhile, siblings and directors of Tuskys chain of supermarket have been engaged in a protracted court battle over alleged fraud and irregular transfer of Sh1.6 billion.
Efforts to reach the management for comment were futile.
