By Agwanda Powerman

Over 600 employees of Postal Corporation of Kenya in Nyanza province downed their tools and paralyzed activities citing low salaries and poor management.

The deputy secretary general of communication workers union Ishmael Noo says the government has frustrated efforts to have their salaries improved by dragging negotiations.

Noo says reports he received confirmed that no work is going in all the corporation offices across the province.

He says the 2 percent increment that was offered to them by the government is an insult considering the demand they tabled during negotiation.

He says the decision to strike was prompted by the government’s laxity to negotiate better terms of employment and it is justified after they issued a strike notice two months ago.

Some employees who marched along the streets of Kisumu town also took issue with the managing director Hussein Ali whom they accused of doing little to improve their welfare.

They vowed to petition communications minister to compel him to replace Ali and other senior managers whom they have accused of incompetence.

Noo confirmed that the strike is nationwide and the 4,250 work force of the giant corporation will only return to work if the issues are addressed.

ENDS.