Teachers threaten go-slow over unpaid salaries

Teachers threaten go-slow over unpaid salaries

Just a week after resuming classes, teachers  are now threatening to yet again stage a go slow to protest withholding of their September salary by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).

Teachers Union KUPPET has urged their members to desist from teaching even as Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) write to the TSC threatening to seek legal redress over unpaid emoluments.

When Justice Nelson Abuodha of the Employment and Labour relations court ordered teachers back to school two weeks ago, he in the same breath directed the TSC not to victimize the striking teachers and to pay their September salaries.

Ten days after the month ended, approximately 230 thousand teachers have seen no penny for September.

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) irked by TSC’s conduct has now written to them indicating they will be seeking legal redress if teachers are not paid by yesterday, Friday.

Kenya Union Of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) chairman Omboko Milemba on the other hand advised his members to begin a go slow next week until such a time they are paid.

“We are telling teachers as from next week Wednesday go to school and stage a go slow. This time to demand for removal of CEO TSC Nancy Macharia for failing to advise the government properly in following court orders,” said Milemba.

But not just the teachers have been affected.

According to KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion, the union has run out of funds, KNUT branch officials too have not received their salaries due to holding of teachers contributions by TSC for the last two months of August and September.

TSC deducts 2% of teachers’ salaries every month and remits to the unions

The TSC recently held that it owes no Septemeber pay to teachers as they did not work for it.

If indeed the teachers make good their threat to stage the go-slow, then the education sector will experience another wave of crisis for students and pupils who have only been taught for five days in the third term.

Tags:

kenya teachers strike go-slow

Want to send us a story? Submit on Wananchi Reporting on the Citizen Digital App or Send an email to wananchi@royalmedia.co.ke or Send an SMS to 25170 or WhatsApp on 0743570000

Leave a Comment

Comments

No comments yet.

latest stories