Africa: How Striking Kenyan Medical Workers Are Using Social Media to Tell Their Stories

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The ongoing health workers strike in Kenya has taken a new dimension with medics adopting social networking sites to air their grievances. In the process they have forged a discussion in the new information spaces, and rallied support for their actions.

Kenya's medical workers have downed tools to demand the implementation of a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2013. The unions accuse the government of breaching the agreement by passing over the healthcare workers' payroll onto county governments without establishing the relevant legal framework for the devolution of health.

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