Agricultural firm Kakuzi has signed a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that will see its unionisable workers get a pay rise of nine percent this year and a similar hike in 2023.
The workers have appealed to President Ruto to direct multinational tea companies to stop using harvesting machines, in keeping with his bottom-up pre-election economic plans, citing massive job losses in the sector
Union says says research findings have established that tea-picking machines are the main reason Kenyan tea fetches poor returns on the international market.