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    "id": 847992,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/847992/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomet Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ronald Tonui",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1242,
        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
        "slug": "ronald-kiprotich-tonui"
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    "content": "I want to comment on the Labour Relations Act which is being extensively amended. The Constitution of Kenya provides certain rights and one is the right to demonstrate and picket. However, the amendments proposed are meant to ensure that, that right is taken away. For example, when it talks of any trade union to engage in a strike in case they are being oppressed, two-thirds of their members have to sign to go on strike. Two-thirds is a massive number and that amendment if it is not unconstitutional, it is malicious and denies the workers the right to go on strike. Even in this House, we are not asked to have two-thirds of our electorates to sign before we make decisions in this House, we do make on individual level once elected. So, this one denies those elected in trade unions the right to make decisions. There are the issues of essential services. There is a blank cheque being given to the CS in charge of labour, that the CS can declare any service an essential service and once he does that all those employees who fall under that service will be told there is no strike and that right to go on strike will be effectively denied, which I have lots of reservations on and will propose some amendments on it. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}