[A file photo of striking nurses. They have called on the government to implement a CBA signed between the state and their union last year. Courtesy: The Star]
The Nandi County Kenya National Union of Nurses (Knun) Nandi County chapter has called of their strike, accusing the union's national Secretary General Seth Panyako of partaking in an illegality.
Speaking on Wednesday, branch secretary Amos Ng'etich directed all the 500 nurses in the County to resume duty by Friday, claiming that they had read something sinister in the ongoing nurses' strike.
“We are advising our members to resume duties latest Friday morning because we have read a sinister motive behind the call for this strike. The secretary general can’t superimpose his selfish decisions on us,” he said in a press briefing at Kapsabet.
“The county public service board will be issuing letters of showing cause to any member who will defy this directive to get back to work since the strike is not legally protected,” he added.Nurses countrywide downed their tools earlier in the month, demanding for the implementation of their Collective Bargaining Agreement that would see them get a pay rise.