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Tea pickers lose battle to machines 

Workers use a tea picking machine at a farm in Kericho. Tea pickers have decried the use of machines saying they are losing jobs.

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

By  Brian Ambani

Nation Media Group

A worker’s union has lost a 10-year fight to prevent multinational Unilever from using tea plucking machines.

The High Court on Thursday ruled that the tea firm is within its rights to adopt new technologies in its operations.

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