Ferry, KPA services paralysed as workers strike over NHIF rates
Cargo containers at the port of Mombasa in this photo taken on June 23, 2015. Services at the port were paralysed after workers went on strike to protest the new NHIF rates on July 1, 2015. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Services at the Kenya Ports Authority and the Kenya Ferry Services remain paralysed following a strike by 6,000 members of the Dock Workers Union.
The workers are protesting against the new National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) rates.
Senior managers were forced to man toll stations to charge motorists using ferries to cross the Likoni channel.
The union's secretary-general, Simon Sang, said the NHIF contributions are being deducted from employees’ gross pay but the union wants them taken out of their basic pay.
