Operations in the 47 counties face a complete shutdown as county government workers join lecturers in threatening to down their tools and demanding higher pay.
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00:00The law through Labor Relations Act allows us to improve our terms and conditions of service through collective bargaining.
00:13When they advise you, the collective bargaining in many cases are stuck.
00:17Because advisories are not being received from the SRC or from the Treasury.
00:24Yesterday we saw an advisory from public service chief or public service minister.
00:31We have case prior to this advice, which is lying in the State Department.
00:37It's lying with the Council of Governors.
00:41So we are saying, and I am laboring to explain the obvious, so that public outside there don't say we call a strike because others went on strike.
00:52If there is a purchase that has been displayed by any union in this republic, it is this Council of Government workers.
01:02We are used to hard labor.
01:04Under the old system, even now, the situation hasn't improved much.
01:08In the old system, we have been going without salaries for months.
01:11Local authorities were not getting direct checks to their accounts.
01:17Like today, Treasury today will do everything possible to reveal money to the counties.
01:22At that time, it wasn't there.
01:24And we are built from the scratch.
01:28The local authorities.
01:32For years.
01:35So we are saying, this discrimination now, we will not take it.
01:40It has to stop.
01:41And we exercise the powers conferred upon us by the labor relations law to take action.
01:53This will take place.
01:58And we are giving effective today.
02:02We have served on all the county secretaries, because those are the employers.
02:08Those are the head of units in the county public service.
02:13We have given them notice of 21 days.
02:17And that will down tools, no doubt.
02:20Because that is what is available to us.
02:23We have reached everywhere.