In the implementation of the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has revealed that it will ‘fight’ for a pay rise of 60% for teachers in all job grades.
KNUT Secretary-General Collins Oyuu was speaking in Kisumu where he disclosed that some teachers had stayed in the same job grades for many years due to the difficult economic situation today. 2,000 members from 115 KNUT branches across the country will be presented.
Other issues to be deliberated on in the NDC include the delocalization of teachers, the formation of a teachers’ appeal tribunal to handle disciplinary cases against teachers and the criteria for the promotion of teachers.
Disciplinary cases among teachers include interdictions, demotions and promotion of teachers among several other issues related to professional misconduct.
Oyuu welcomed the upcoming recruitment of 30,000 teachers by the Teachers Service Commission but added that more teachers are still required to be recruited to address the acute teacher shortage in schools.