Some of its work is focused on the elimination of child labour in Kenya's agricultural sector.
[4] The KPAWU is opposed to mechanization of plantations on the grounds that the introduction of machines is a threat to jobs.
For example, in 2006 it threatened strike action against a plantation owner which sought to introduce tea-picking machines.
It has brought lawsuits against another trade union that wants to end KPAWU's monopoly in the floriculture sector.
Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London [2000].
Decolonisation and 'Development Untoward': Crisis and Conflict on Kenya's Tea Plantations, 1959-60, chapter 8 in 'Workers of the Empire Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism', [Y.Beliard and N.Kirk eds.]