KNH nurses resume strike over unmet CBA demands

Barely four months after calling off their strike in April, Kenyatta National Hospital nurses have resumed their strike starting midnight on Monday, joining a wider nationwide industrial action by the Kenya National Union of Nurses and Midwives over the unfulfilled 2025–2029 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). A last-minute meeting held last week between KNH management and the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) to avert the strike yielded no results, with the SRC reportedly declining to make any commitments to implementing the return-to-work formulas agreed upon in April this year. The nurses are accusing the government of going back on its word and failing to implement the increment in their uniform and extraneous allowances. The union’s leadership and KNH management are currently holding talks with the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) to seek a breakthrough in the impasse.