The Communication Workers Union (COWU) has revealed that employees of the Postal Corporation of Kenya will be on strike nationwide from Monday, October 27, 2025, in protest against their salaries that have not been paid for more than seven months.
In a report, COWU Secretary-General Benson Okwaro said that the last time postal workers were paid was in March this year, but they have been providing essential postal and government services all over the country.
Okwaro alleged that the corporation was responsible for less than KSh 1.5 billion in statutory deductions that it had not handed over, including pension and loan repayments.
The union states that the 30 days’ strike notice addressed to the Ministry of Labour, which they had handed over, has expired without the ministry taking any concrete steps to resolve the crisis.
COWU declared that they would bring the postal services to a standstill if that was the only way to ensure that workers’ salaries would be paid and that the government would present a plan guaranteeing regular payments in the future.
There is still no official response from the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Digital Economy and National Treasury to the threat of the industrial action.
