Treasury To Engage TSC and Unions To Avert Strike by Teachers, Dons
National Treasury CS, John Mbadi has been directed by President William Ruto to open talks with teachers and lecturers’ unions to avert looming strikes in the education sector.
The President told the Treasury, Teachers Service Commission (TSC), Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) and the Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) to meet and iron out pending issues that have led to issuing of strike notices.
The call to engage relevant stakeholders comes after KNUT and KUPPET issued strike notices which was planned to kick off from twenty sixth of this month. The teachers unions are pushing for the implementation of the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement, employment of Junior Secondary School Teachers on permanent and pensionable terms together with harmonization of allowances for teachers.
Treasury To Engage TSC and Unions To Avert Strike by Teachers, Dons
On the other hand, UASU has also issued a strike for its members. The union is saying that it’s members will boycott work as from early next month when the new academic calendar is expected to commence. The strike is over delayed salaries.
In a statement yesterday, President Ruto said that the Treasury, TSC and the teaching fraternity should have a meeting together and look at ways possible of ensuring that the government implement its commitment and thus avoid unnecessary work boycott and interruption in learning institutions.
About university education, President William Ruto said new admission letters have been issued to students expected to join first year as from September with correct amount of fee payable for various courses clearly indicated. The amount of fees that the government, Higher Education Loans Board and parents ought to pay per year have been indicated.
Treasury To Engage TSC and Unions To Avert Strike by Teachers, Dons
Earlier on, the students who are expected to join various institutions of learning had received their admission letters but the letters had some errors which necessitated their withdrawals. The amount of fees payable to the universities for different courses were not indicated clearly, they had some errors.
