Services paralysed as Homa Bay county workers strike over pay : The Standard

Services were paralysed by workers’ strike at the Homa Bay County government offices on Tuesday. The area Kenya County Governments Workers Union officials said they would not resume duties until their July salaries were paid. The Union Chairman Kennedy Okumu and Secretary Meshack Onyango said the county government had failed to pay them their salaries. “We gave the county a strike notice which expired on Monday but they have not replied. We have downed our tools from today,” Okumu said on Tuesday.

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Onyango argued that many county government employees were undergoing financial problems resulting from delayed salaries. “County government workers cannot meet their daily needs because of delayed salaries. Let them pay us,” said Onyango. A similar complaint was also raised by the chairman of the Kenya Union of Civil Servants Chairman Tom Akech. Akech said their members who work in the county government would not report to work until they are paid. “I urge the county government to pay workers so that they return to work,” Akech said.

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