By STANDARD TEAM Nakuru, Kenya: Learning in public universities was paralysed as lecturers and non-academic staff downed their tools over Sh3.9 billion pay dispute. Striking staff at Egerton University, Njoro campus, had an altercation with students as they boycotted work to press for higher pay. The clash was prompted by striking workers who ejected a student who was recording speeches of officials of the Kenya University Staff Union (Kusu), Egerton chapter. Lecturers and non-teaching staff converged at the Graduation Square where they vowed not resume work until the management of the university pays the 33.2 per cent salary increase and the 14.1 per cent for house allowance as agreed in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). Kusu officials, led by the Egerton chapter chairman Fred Esaboke and his Secretary General Ernest Wayaya, warned those who had not joined them would be forced out of the offices and classrooms.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:58:15 +0000
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