The MoU signing between NASA and TUC-K in Mombasa, August 4, 2017. [Photo|ODM Reloaded]National Super Alliance (Nasa) presidential candidate Raila Odinga has received a major boost, hours to the general election.This is after seven workers unions declared their support for his election as the fifth president of Kenya.Under the Trade Union Congress of Kenya (TUC-K) umbrella, the workers accused President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee administration of suppressing and ignoring their plight, ever since it took power from the grand coalition government, in 2013.Led by TUC-K secretary general Wilson Sossion, Dock Workers Union (DWU), Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU), Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN), University Academic Staff Union (UASU), Kenya University Staff Union (KUSU), and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nasa, Friday.Sossion noted that the Jubilee government had perfected the act of criminalising workers in the country, e ensuring they file cases in court, whenever teachers, doctors, and nurses demand implementation of a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), on salary matters.

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​According to Sossion, who is also the Knut SG, nurses strike is now in its third month, yet Jubilee government has been campaigning, ignoring them."Workers of this country cannot continue to suffer under Jubilee. We have the numbers and on Tuesday we will vote for a Nasa government, because it has assured us that it'll take care of all worker's problems. We are sure of this," Sossion.Speaking during the MoU signing at the office of Mombasa governor Ali Hassan Joho, Odinga hailed the workers, saying his government would ensure everything agreed upon, is taken into consideration."We have come a long way. These unions engaged both political divides- Nasa and Jubilee, but the latter turned a deaf ear on them. It has been done somewhere else in the developed countries. Our engagement with trade unions started one year ago, and Nasa is committed to accommodating each of them," he affirmed.