PREPARE FOR WORSE, TRADERS’ UNION CONGRESS (TUC) TELLS GOVERNMENT.

STORY BY: ALBERT BWANA

The TUC in conjunction with the Kenya Union of teachers and the University Academic Staff Union today held a joint press conference in urging the government to regulate to revoke the new gazette notice of the National Health Insurance Fund.

Speaking during the briefing at their office, the KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion lauded the workers grievances to revoke the notice as it will punish them by cutting their mere salaries as it is a plan by the government to make a source of revenue through their salary.

Sossion also added that the salaries and remuneration commission has no role in evaluating the salaries of the teachers and working Kenyan citizens as they have increased the salaries of state officials from nowhere hence undermining others.

He also gave the government an ultimatum in revoking the new NHIF  rates till july 1^st 2015 and if not they will join the Okoa Kenya in collecting the signatures of all workers grievances  for a better implementation and in getting rid of SRC from office.

The union also added that it has written a letter to the governes , security unit, federation of Kenyan employees ,central organization trade unions and the private sector to have a look keenly on the matter.

The Union affiliates urged all their members to cooperate together in achieving a common goal.

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