The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has issued a one-week strike notice after talks with the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) involving salary increment stalled.
Reports indicate that despite the salary increase offer of between 16 and 32 percent, the teachers proceeded with the strike notice.
According to KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion, the salary increment proposal by SRC is irregular.
He stated that the National Executive Council gave him instructions requiring the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to devise measures to allow for the beginning of talks within seven days.
Failure to comply with the requirement will prompt KNUT to call for a strike, Sossion addedd
The KNUT Secretary General said, "I am firmly instructed to inform you that upon the next seven days, Knut shall be left with no option but to organise its members for an industrial action."
According to him, there were no proper negotiations or consultations with the involved stakeholders for SRC to make the move.
Sossion also claimed that there was no
proper job evaluation to justify the salary raise and the SRC proposal was not backed by any data from the Central Planning and Monitoring Unit (CPMU) in the Ministry of Labour.
On November 13, 2020, KNUT gave TSC three weeks to put measures in place for a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), he added.
Sossion remarked, "You instead went mute and activated your legal Department to revoke the existing Knut/TSC Recognition Agreement. This in effect is to declare that you are not intending to negotiate the next CBA with Knut, which in itself is an act of provocation and bad faith."
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