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Over 2,000 EPZ workers return to work after union dispute

Export Processing Zone (EPZ)workers resume work after a two-week strike. [Peterson Githaiga, Standard]

It’s a reprieve as striking workers of a textile manufacturing company at the Athi River–based Export Processing Zone (EPZ) resume work.

More than 2,000 workers of Shangcheng Kenya Apparel EPZ Limited had been on a two-week strike after the company dismissed them following their attempt to join a workers’ union.

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