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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyatike, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tom Odege",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. If there is ever a day I would say I am a very happy man, it is today. I see Parliament living to its name and sending a very strong message that we are the legislators in this country. We are setting the record straight. Some of us who have been in the labour movement and have represented workers have faced the true wrath of the SRC. Currently, if you are representing workers in the Public Service, you have no business negotiating with the Ministry of Public Service, Gender and Affirmative Action because you will not go anywhere. Even if the Government says that they are willing to pay, the SRC will say “No”. The most unfortunate thing is that the SRC has not taken the chance to negotiate with the workers. They will wait for you to negotiate. After negotiating, they want you to subject your agreement to them and then they mark it as if it is an examination paper. When marking the agreement, there is no single day that the SRC will come up with a favourable agreement for public workers. We were talking about doctors in the Public Service. They negotiated and signed a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with Kenyatta National Hospital, and it was subjected to the SRC and was rejected. Kenyatta National Hospital said that they had money to pay, but the SRC said “No”, and the doctors were not given that money. In the Public Service where we have civil servants, we negotiated with the Ministry of Public Service, Gender and Affirmative Action and agreed that workers deserved to be given a salary increment. When the agreement reached the SRC, they said that there was no money. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as Parliament, I want us to refer back because we have partially failed the country. Why do I say so? The first lady who chaired the SRC was a banker. I do not know the background of the lady currently chairing the SRC, but I have traced her records in public service. She has never been a public servant. The SRC is entirely about public servants. When we talk about public servants and the work of the SRC, it is a human resource function. Why do we bring people who do not have any experience in public service to come and frustrate the public service itself? The kind of people we recruit to serve at the SRC is what causes problems there. There are many career-civil servants in this country who have aided the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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