Over 500 employees of the Athi River's Kenya Meat Commission who were on strike due to delayed salary alongside other payments delays have resumed work.
The workers who downed their tools for a whole week resumed work on Tuesday after they had been paid their pending November salaries and promised settlements of their gratitudes soon.
It took the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and fisheries, Prof. Fred Segor's intervention for the situation to be managed after the commission's management were defeated to do so.
The PS who talked to the workers promised them that the ministry was aware of the challenges they were going through and that it was doing all which possible at its descrition to solve them.
The employees were convinced and promised to get back to work of which they did by majority expressing their confidences on the PS.
Esther Wanyama (54), one of the company's employees said the workers had suffered for decades due to delayed salaries payments and poor terms and conditions of work as those in senior positions enjoyed better terms and conditions of their services.
"Workers have worked and pathetic terms and conditions of work in this commission with lowest earning as little as Ksh. 8,000 as those in management and other senior positions earn hundreds of thousands of shillings," Wanyama told the press at the plant's compound yesterday.
Wanyama said they had hopes and were motivated by the PS who she said took his time to go speak with the workers after being dismissed by the commission's management.
The workers have smiles on their faces and hope that they will also happily join other Kenyans in Christmas Cellebrations given they now have money in their pockets and stil expect more.