WORKERS RIGHTS WATCH
Spearheading and championing workers rights since the year 2000.
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Women’s Freedom to work: Unmasking Sexual Harrasment
Who We Are
We are an association of shop stewards and key leaders in Kenya, created out of a concern that social ethical business practices were not being followed in the industries despite there being voluntary systems of self-regulation by way of audits and labor inspections.
Our Goal
To ensure that workers leaders at the shop floor and neighboring communities have an opportunity to consult and promote corporate citizenship and good working conditions.
Our Mandate
To foster collaborative dialogue between workers and actors who affect and those affected by their work. In promoting this dialogue, we have always believed that complimentary role exists between Non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders.
Our Interest
To familiarize workers with tools, skills and tactics that would
enable them to expand the horizon of organizing and create critical consciousness that would be required for effective workers organizing. We believe in dispute resolutions as key in delivering both accountability and well being which remains a rare commodity in Kenya and yet workers are the most affected.
How We Do It
WRW believes in dispute resolutions as key in delivering both accountability and well being which remains a rare commodity in Kenya and yet workers are the most affected. Practice however seems to suggest that effective organizing at the local level can ensure better delivery by District labor officers and the directorate of occupational Health and safety officers.
What Makes Us Competent
Our success throughout the years has stemmed from our commitment to competency.
- Our staff has worked under and been part of various labor rights movements within our target sectors. This has enabled us to have first hand experience of the occurrences of issues affecting workers thus the genesis of our aim to deal with such.
- Our projects are developed, amended and implemented in consultation with partners who also assist in identifying the areas in need of intervention
- We have a qualified research team and close links with our study cases which enables us to obtain maximum and accurate information required to develop our projects.
- Through research, training programs, workshops and meetings with workers, managers, certifications, union, shop stewards and gender committee members, we have managed to widen our focus, by not just being able to tackle issues regarding gender and labour rights, but also those that affect these indirectly, as well as those that arise from the malpractices involved.
- Although we are a small size organization, every individual is highly skilled, flexible and responsive, while this makes it affordable and easier to coordinate activities and assign tasks as well as promoting clear channels for accountability.
Our Scope
Our areas of expertise are in gender related issues, workplace equality, training of trainers, research and consultancy, policy formulation and implementation procedures in the agribusiness. We have been able to set up representatives within Nairobi, Thika, Ruiru/Kiambu ,Naivasha, Athi River and Mombasa.
Articles & Resources
DelMonte Campaign
The initial engagement of civil society in Kenya’s cut-flower industry began with the Delmonte campaign research and analysis done by WRW, KHRC, and shops steward
Workers’ Struggle In Kenya
When we flashback our minds as to when, why, and how the struggle started during colonial days in this country probably we can do an
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