{"id":185251,"date":"2024-11-24T23:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-engage-workers-on-strategic-reforms-or-risk-failing-cotu-tells-govt\/"},"modified":"2024-11-24T23:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T21:50:32","slug":"kenya-engage-workers-on-strategic-reforms-or-risk-failing-cotu-tells-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-engage-workers-on-strategic-reforms-or-risk-failing-cotu-tells-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Engage Workers On Strategic Reforms or Risk Failing &#8211; Cotu Tells Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>The Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) has called on the government and state agencies to consult workers before implementing any strategic reforms.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The trade union was reacting to President William Ruto&#8217;s directive on Thursday to cancel all contracts with the Adani Group, an Indian conglomerate, citing new information from partner states and concerns raised by Kenyans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">COTU Secretary-General Francis Atwoli Friday praised the President&#8217;s decision, describing it as bold and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411220575.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 The Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) has called on the government and state agencies to consult workers before implementing any strategic reforms. The trade union was reacting to President William Ruto&#8217;s directive on Thursday to cancel all contracts with the Adani Group, an Indian conglomerate, citing new information from partner states and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":185252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,48177,11444,21944,4357,4688,430,257,7580,9590,254,8007,7036,6498],"class_list":["post-185251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cotu","tag-engage","tag-failing","tag-govt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-reforms","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic","tag-tells","tag-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}