Kenyan tea workers strike of 2007

The Kenyan tea workers strike of 2007 was a strike action undertaken by members of the Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union (KPAWU) against Unilever Tea Kenya Ltd (UTK) over a wage increase.

It took place in the Kericho region of Kenya and involved an estimated 10,000 workers from eighteen tea plantations.

[1][2] The KPAWU announced that it would take legal action against UTK unless the wage increase was implemented by 20 September 2007.

[1] The strike began on 8 September 2007 when 10,000 KPAWU members stopped work and brought operations at eighteen plantations to a halt.

[4] It is unclear as to the level of support that the strike had within the KPAWU, as the Kericho chairman asked the strikers to return to work while the issue was investigated,[1] while the KPAWU general secretary blamed UTK's actions for the strike.