The Migori branch KUPPET Executive Secretary Orwa Jasolo has urged the TSC to initiate the promotion of teachers on an equal basis across the existing job groups.
Jasolo said that teachers have endured a lot sufferings from TSC, due to haphazard promotions, with the majority of them having stagnated for long and eventually retiring in the same job groups.
The executive secretary noted that teachers in grades C3 to C5 who form 80% of classroom teachers, were not allocated any meaningful share in the recent promotions advertised by TSC.
He decried that majority of classroom teachers have stagnated for between five to 22 years in grade C3, yet only very few positions were advertised for the same job group.
Orwa said that from over 110,000 post-primary teachers only 3,000 teachers are set to be promoted representing a smaller percentage.
The advertised promotions mostly are those at the higher grades, set to benefit only a few, while the majority of the teachers who are at lower grades will remain stagnated at the same job group, without a pay rise or any advancement in their careers, Orwa noted.
Orwa added that TSC must find a new strategy for including classroom teachers in the promotion matrix because they are the ones shouldering the responsibility of improving students’ performance at the class level.
He urged the government to pay teachers according to the CBA matrix signed between TSC and union in 2017 to allow all teachers across the ranks to benefit fully.
KUPPET official also asked the TSC to initiate a clear path on how Diploma teachers can be promoted both at primary and high school levels.
Migori KUPPET Treasurer Odour clarified that what the TSC was claiming to be a promotion was actually mere name-changing of job groups.
TSC changed the initial teacher’s job groups from K, L, M to C2, C3, C4 respectively, which is actually not a promotion, but change of designations, Odour said.
She called upon the TSC to listen to the pleas of teachers and address their concerns in terms of promotions and pay rise.
