Labour Day is futile until workers solidarity dream becomes reality

COTU Secretary--Coast Region, Gideon Mutiso during prayers ahead of Labour Day at Voice of Salvation and healing Church in Mombasa.[Omondi Onyango,Standard]

Let’s put this bluntly: The Kenyan worker has become a political pawn. While workers elsewhere move economies through industry, the only place the Kenyan worker seems to move is across the political chessboard.

The only inheritance many Kenyan workers have passed on to their children is the solidarity song“Solidarity forever.” Yet this solidarity is often one of convenience and political expedience, crafted by a clique that considers itself more enlightened than the rest of Kenya’s workers.