hardwood wrote:alma1 wrote:KulaRaha wrote:Pesa Nane wrote:guilty as charged
1 month in jail (suspended for 2weeks to call off the strike)
Some Kenyan court rulings are very odd....
strange
It's encouraging to see that our courts are working. You ignore court orders at your own peril. Kudos to the judge.
Not really ...not as advertised anyway. I am in the doctor's corner, but the union leaders should have been jailed outright in normal application of the law in such a case...but nope, the judge has used discretion, coming up with a middling ruling that is meant to apply pressure to make the strike disappear.
To the court, 2 issues are clear:
1) The court held that there is no CBA
2) ...ergo the strike has no legal cover
3) There was contempt of court.
Clear as day.
This is judicial interference .. pure and simple. The govt doesn't have the cojones to jail the leaders then find out what the consequences of that action will be.