Kuppet is resolute as the second week of the teachers’ strike begins.
As the strike enters its second week, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) has stood behind it.
While the government appears willing to resolve the standoff, the union charges that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is disregarding its complaints.
According to Kuppet, a return-to-work agreement ought to be based on an employer’s sincere promise to resolve teacher complaints.
Kuppet Secretary General Akelo Misori highlighted the need for immediate attention in his speech following the National Governing Council meeting in Nairobi, pointing out that teachers’ immobility within the same job groupings is a serious problem.
Mosori called for the TSC’s Career Progression Guidelines (CPG) to be removed.
“The current retarded Career Progression Guidelines must be quashed before any meaningful negotiation table moves can take place,” he declared.
He lamented that a great deal of teachers were terribly compensated as a result of being stuck in outmoded job groupings.
“It makes sense that teachers are being severely underpaid because they are inflexibly bound to strict job groups that they have been in for a number of years,” he stated.
The 2021–2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), according to Kuppet Secretary General, has had little effect on enhancing the working conditions for teachers.
“The employer’s current boast about the CBA implementation is but a drop in the ocean. With just Sh1,000, how can you send a teacher back to the classroom? He made a pose.
The union also warned that the strike is similar to a fight for liberation and chastised the TSC for not fulfilling its promise to employ junior secondary school teachers on permanent and pensionable terms.
“After industrial action, we are currently engaged in a fight to free teachers from enslavement. We think we can handle this; we’ve been pushed too far to the limit,” he remarked.
Kuppet informed parents at the same time that their kids wouldn’t get attention until the TSC complied with the instructors’ requests.
We no longer work for them or provide a service to their kids. Give your kids to the Principals to look after. Misori issued a warning, saying, “We won’t be held accountable for anything that occurs while we are away.
The secretary general of Kuppet, who said that overloaded schools are becoming unmanageable without instructors, accused TSC of inciting confrontation between school head teachers, the government, and parents.
The enrollment of most schools has increased dramatically, making it impossible for principals to run their institutions without teachers. Schools are currently experiencing disruption that is not being addressed, according to Misori.
Kuppet is resolute as the second week of the teachers’ strike begins.
