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Mombasa dockers return to work, but plan to strike this week
STRIKING dockers in the Port of Mombasa, East Africa's biggest port, have returned to work, but vow to resume their strike this week to protest higher health care deductions.
This prompted a massive walkout when workers discovered their monthly National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) deductions shot up from US$3.22 to $17.13.
Then the Kenya Port Authority (KPA) threatened strikers with permanent dismissal because their walkout had nothing to do with the labour contract. The KPA said that normal services would resume this week.
But Dock Workers Union leader Simon Sang claimed that the return to work was temporary "after sympathising with many stranded businessmen at the port".
The strike disrupted imports such as fuel for Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, eastern Congo (Kinshasha) and Somalia, but the port's management has said normal services would resume by Monday.
But Mr Sang promised a bigger strike this week. "It will be bigger, because even other civil servants across the country will join in," he told Reuters.
Ships and trucks remained stranded for over 24 hours as key entry points to the port remained closed.
This prompted a massive walkout when workers discovered their monthly National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) deductions shot up from US$3.22 to $17.13.
Then the Kenya Port Authority (KPA) threatened strikers with permanent dismissal because their walkout had nothing to do with the labour contract. The KPA said that normal services would resume this week.
But Dock Workers Union leader Simon Sang claimed that the return to work was temporary "after sympathising with many stranded businessmen at the port".
The strike disrupted imports such as fuel for Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, eastern Congo (Kinshasha) and Somalia, but the port's management has said normal services would resume by Monday.
But Mr Sang promised a bigger strike this week. "It will be bigger, because even other civil servants across the country will join in," he told Reuters.
Ships and trucks remained stranded for over 24 hours as key entry points to the port remained closed.
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