The effects of strikes in Kenya.

  

Date Posted: 4/4/2013 8:37:16 AM

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The effects of strikes in Kenya

Strikes have taken place in so many organizations all over the world including here in Kenya in the recent years. However, not many of those who participate in these strikes really understand or even know the effects these strikes can have on the individual, his or her company, those around him or her and their countries in general. Not just strikes of workers, but even the strikes in schools either conducted by the teachers or the students. These effects may be both positive and negative depending on the reasons behind them and how well they are conducted. The effects are as follows.

1) Losing money.

Whenever the employees go on a strike, the company which they work for does not continue to earn as much money as it used to during the strike and sometimes it does not even earn any money during this period. Even after the strike, some companies take a lot of time to regain back the same number of customers that they had in the past who during the strike found other places to get whatever they used to buy from these companies. This therefore makes the company and those who earn from it to lose a lot of money.

2) Creating a bad relationship at work.

Usually, the employees and their employers should always have a good relationship with one another in order to work effectively towards the common goal of making their company to flourish. However, after the strikes, the employers start hating most of the employees who participated in the strike. This is mostly after the employers lose a lot of money because of the strike.

3) Losing of jobs.

Some of the employees who participated in these strikes lose their jobs. Most of the employees who get fired after a

strike are the ones who might have destroyed company property during the strike, the ones who led the strike, the ones who might have said very hateful things about their employers during the strike and even the ones who were only being allowed to work in the company because they had a good relationship with their employers which ended the time they decided to become part of the strike.

4) Interfering with the other businesses.

Not all the strikes are carried out in an orderly manner. Some become very unruly and interfere with even other businesses. For example, some of those engaged in the strike might not just walk along the footpaths at the side of the roads. Some of them go ahead and walk along the roads causing the road users in that particular road to stop and wait for them to move out of the roads which might take a lot of time. This makes these people to not reach to their work places on time which affects them and the places where they work. It also makes the people who work in the public transport sector to lose a lot of money.

5) People get hurt physically.

Some strikes tend to become so unruly that the police would have to intervene in order to restore order in the places the strikes have affected. However, not all the participants of the strikes cooperate with the police. Some try to go against what the police are telling them thus the police are forced to use other measures other than talking to them in order to stop them from disrupting the peace and order in the society. It is usually done through teargas.

Some strikes are as a result of greed which makes the workers not to be content with the good money that they are being paid. However, some are as a result of very bad treatment being given to the employees in a n organization or the students in a school. All in all, striking should be the last thing that any one should ever think of doing when they want to be heard.

What are results of workers strikes?

a) Pay cuts
b) Demotions
c) Loss of jobs
d) Employers suffer losses
e) Inflation
f) Injuries even death when confronted by police
g) Victimization of some individuals
h) Bitterness among the workers and employers

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