Tuskys workers strike threatens sales in peak Xmas season

Tuskys Supermarket stores were Thursday shut down after the chain’s 7, 000 workers went on strike, highlighting the rising spate of industrial action in Kenya’s retail sector.

The workers, through the Kenya Union of Commercial Food and Allied Workers (KUCFAW), are protesting the failure by the retail chain to effect a 10 per cent wage rise agreed in November, the withdrawal of overtime pay and house allowances.