{"id":127996,"date":"2026-01-06T17:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/42-trade-unions-endorse-atwoli-for-a-6th-term-as-cotu-kenya-sec-gen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:09:35","slug":"42-trade-unions-endorse-atwoli-for-a-6th-term-as-cotu-kenya-sec-gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/42-trade-unions-endorse-atwoli-for-a-6th-term-as-cotu-kenya-sec-gen\/","title":{"rendered":"42 trade unions endorse Atwoli for a 6th term as COTU-Kenya Sec-Gen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 6 \u2013 Francis Atwoli is set to extend his tenure as the longest-serving Secretary General of the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU-Kenya)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This comes after he received a full endorsement from affiliated trade unions ahead of August polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, in my capacity as the Secretary General of COTU (K), I hosted 42 General Secretaries from affiliated trade unions for a preparatory lunch, during which they unanimously endorsed me to lead them into the COTU (K) elections scheduled for August this year, as a team and in solidarity,\u201d he stated on his X handle.<\/p>\n<p>Atwoli has held the position since in August 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old was re-elected unopposed to serve for the fifth term in the last election, where he promised to serve all the workers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He previously served as the General Secretary of the Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union and also in a senior position at the Union of Posts and Telecommunication Employees.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Atwoli was re-elected to serve for the fifth time as a Titular Member of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Governor body, becoming the longest serving member.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 6 \u2013 Francis Atwoli is set to extend his tenure as the longest-serving Secretary General of the Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU-Kenya) This comes after he received a full endorsement from affiliated trade unions ahead of August polls. \u201cToday, in my capacity as the Secretary General of COTU (K), I hosted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}