KUPPET SG Akelo Misori protects himself in the face of calls for his resignation during the teachers’ strike.
Kenya Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) are becoming less united over how their one-week national strike was called off.
Several branch leaders have said that Secretary General Akelo Misori should not have ended the strike without talking to them first, but Misori says he followed the union’s rules.
The KUPPET strike finished Monday night, and on Tuesday, students who hadn’t been there yet went back to start the third term of this year’s school year.
Leaders of KUPPET branches say that the strike should only have been stopped by the National Governing Council.
Some people think that the national leadership’s choice to end the strike is an attack on the teachers’ cause because this group had decided on Sunday to keep the strike going.
Leaders of the branch say Misori messed up when he told everyone that the strike was over on the steps of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), which Misori rejects.
“I need to be a leader. It is better to make a choice than none at all, even if many people don’t agree with it. “I am the one who has to make these choices; not everyone can send out a strike notice,” Misori explained.
The head of KUPPET says that the strike accomplished many of its objectives and that the issues that are still being dealt with are being looked into.
“We achieved the implementation of the CBA, reinstated the medical cover, secured a commitment on the employment of JSS teachers, and ensured the promotion of teachers,” he added.
The union leaders also said that their lawyers will file a formal consent in court on Thursday that covers all of the issues on the union’s list of complaints, except for hiring 46,000 JSS intern teachers right away on permanent and pensionable terms.
KUPPET SG Akelo Misori protects himself in the face of calls for his resignation during the teachers’ strike.
