The teachers have right away requested a pay increase of 60% from their employer, the Teachers Service Commission. (TSC).
The Kenya National Union of Teachers, the they’ umbrella organization, declared on Wednesday that teachers would not accept anything less than a pay increase (Knut).
Knut Secretary General Collins Oyuu claims that this union had previously proposed to TSC that the 2021–2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement be reviewed (CBA).
For the past ten years, the CBA has not raised teacher pay.
According to Mr. Oyuu, “It is true that we signed a CBA that increased the number of days our female teachers could take off for maternity leave and included a paternity leave for our male teachers. However, with the current economic difficulties, teachers need financial advantages and are requesting a pay raise.
TSC and the teachers’ union visited Naivasha two weeks ago to discuss, among other things, the possibility of reviewing the CBA.
The Knut claimed that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s announcement of a pay raise for government employees at Labor Day festivities was evidence that the nation’s economy had fully recovered from the shocks caused by the Covid-19 epidemic.
Mr. Oyuu asserts that the TSC should recommend the Salaries and Remuneration Commission grant the teacher’s salary proposal in order to ensure that instructors receive pay increases as soon as practical (SRC).
