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The judge declined to grant orders sought to bar the Registrar of Trade Unions from registering or gazetting the newly elected officials, including Atwoli.
Atwoli, 76, has led COTU since 2001 after succeeding the late Joseph Mugalla. he is expected to continue serving in his post for the next five years.
Atwoli argued that recent remarks by the employers’ lobby on NSSF deductions neither represent workers nor reflect a genuine understanding of their lived realities.
Cotu has backed a High Court order stopping government agencies from hiring private lawyers and private law firms to represent them.
“The craze in outsourcing legal services by national and county governments, state corporations and parastatals only point to the fact that private law firms have become conduits of corruption.”
He added that the assault is a gross violation and dignity of workers’ rights by foreign investors.
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