TEACHERS STRIKE ON AS KNUT AND KUPPET OFFICIALS TELL TEACHERS TO - TopicsExpress



          

TEACHERS STRIKE ON AS KNUT AND KUPPET OFFICIALS TELL TEACHERS TO STAY AWAY FROM SCHOOL. Via #Std A cloud of uncertainty hangs around the country as the school calendar kicks off (today)Monday following contradictory statements issued by the Government, teachers unions and a parents association over whether children should report to class. To further compound the complex situation, school heads remained silent Sunday over whether schools would open or not, in the face of the strike which has been called by the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education of Teachers (Kuppet). Public secondary and primary school association heads Sunday failed to issue statements advising their members to report to schools, even as the Teachers Service Commission ( TSC ) asked all teachers to report to work. Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (Kessha) and the Kenya Primary School Heads Association (Kepsha) officials declined to state whether schools will open today (Monday). That is a union affair and we shall deal with it professionally. The unions are best placed to handle that, said Kessha National Chairman John Awiti. Asked whether school heads will report to school under instructions from the Teachers Service Commission ( TSC ), Awiti said: We shall make that decision on that day, he said. Kuppet Secretary General Akello Misori said no teacher shall be victimised and asked all members to assemble outside their offices. The strike is on. Members of Kuppet should assemble at branch offices to get circulars of the strike and the events of the week, said Misori. Teachers will not be responsible for school property during the period of the strike. TSC must take responsibility for the consequences of the strike because it has failed to table a meaningful offer to teachers, added Misori. The union issued a seven-day strike notice on December 31, 2014, after a meeting of the National Governing Council. In a new offer tabled on Saturday, the Government introduced leave allowance for all teachers effective July 1, 2015. The allowance shall be paid once a year based on teachers job groups.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 04:48:48 +0000

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