Sessional Paper No. 6 of 1961 on Proposals for the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report on the State of Industrial Relations in the East African Railways and Harbours Administration

Abstract

One of the terms of the settlement ending the strike of railway African employees in Tanganyika on 30th April, 1960, and ending the trade disputes which existed at the same time with the Uganda and Kenya Railway African Unions on 5th May and 17th June, 1960. respectively. was- "Both parties (i.e. the Management of the E.A.R. & H. and the respective Railway African Unions) agree to an independent enquiry into the state of industrial relations in the East African Railways and Harbours Administration. with particular reference to the nature and suitability of the machinery needed for sound industrial relations. The enquiry will be carried out by a commissioner. appointed by the Secretary of State. The commissioner will submit his report and recommendations within six months of the return to work. The Report was discussed at a meeting of Transport Advisory Council on 1st and 2nd February. 1961. Thereafter the Management of the E.A.R. & H. Administration discussed the Report with the Staff Associations/ Unions on 28th February and 3rd March, 1961. The draft of this Sessional Paper was then prepared and discussed by Management with representatives of the Staff Associations/ Unions at further meetings. It should be understood, however, that the Railway African Union (Kenya) was not represented at any of the meetings between Management and the Staff Associations/ Unions as throughout this period it was not constituted as a working unit. With this exception the Sessional Paper as now laid has had close regard to the views expressed on the Report by the Staff Associations/ Unions and also to the views of Transport Advisory Council.