Atwoli argued that recent remarks by the employers’ lobby on NSSF deductions neither represent workers nor reflect a genuine understanding of their lived realities.
Cotu has backed a High Court order stopping government agencies from hiring private lawyers and private law firms to represent them.
“The craze in outsourcing legal services by national and county governments, state corporations and parastatals only point to the fact that private law firms have become conduits of corruption.”
He added that the assault is a gross violation and dignity of workers’ rights by foreign investors.
COTU-K has called for the arrest and deportation of two Chinese nationals accused of assaulting Kenyan workers, condemning ongoing labour abuses by foreign employers.
Atwoli noted that the union would not tolerate the mistreatment of Kenyan workers by rogue foreign investors.