US embassy KK security guards get pay increment

It is all smiles for 1,000 KK Security guards working at the
US embassy in Nairobi after the firm accepted to raise employee salaries and signed a Collective Bargaining Agreement
(CBA). 

This comes after the employees issued a 21-day strike
notice. A guard who earned a basic salary of Ksh 14,000 per month will now get
Ksh 21, 500 basic salary. The minimum salary is set at Ksh 45, 000 while the
highest being Ksh 75,000.

The Kenya National Private Security Workes’ Union General
Secretary Isaac Andabwa signed the CBA alongside the company’s Managing
Director Chris Manning. Andabwa said he will seek another deal for KK guards
working in other parts of the nation.

The payments will be backdated to March 2017 when the
agreement should have been implemented. He added that, “The Union will
trace all those eligible to benefit…In case someone died, their dependants
will be given their money.”