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Join Our Telegram Group Education International (EI) has urged the Kenyan Government to stop the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) from continuing its conflict with the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and restore a good working environment that will lead to quality education. The EI said that KNUT’s survival is at risk due to a […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion has notified all KNUT branch secretaries of the upcoming Annual Delegates Conference (ADC) that will lead to the election of national leadership in September. In a letter dated the 22nd of April 2021, Wilson Sossion said that the nomination of the […]
Join Our Telegram Group On Sunday, teachers and civil Servants threatened to strike over what they feel is frustration stemming from the National Treasury. The government is owing public servants close to Sh. 83 Billion in salary increases. State Officers and Labour Unions said yesterday that if the state does not honor their collective bargaining […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is set to sign an agreement for payment with its employee unions by the 30th of June. The New Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) will address the conflicts that have been in existence between teachers and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). The conflicts often lead to teacher strikes that paralyze education […]
The race to recruit a substantive TSC chairperson is on after a President Uhuru-appointed selection panel announced that applications for the post is now open for interested and qualified individuals. Any successful applicant shall replace Lydia Nzomo whose term expired in November, 2020. Dr. Nzomo was the first chairperson to ever be recruited competitively since […]
258 students from Makueni Boys went on a rampage on Friday night protesting the compulsory shaving haircuts administered every month in the school. Makueni Boys Principal Raphael Katana told the media that the students, with some keeping full beards and hair on their heads, refused to be shaved as required in the school. When the […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) is urging recruitment of a chairperson and seven commissioners of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). TSC chairperson Lydia Nzomo’s six-year tenure ended in November 18, 2020. She was the first chairperson of TSC following the making of the commission as a constitutional body. She then took oath of […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has threatened full-blown industrial action against its employer if TSC does not conduct new salary talks within the next two weeks. KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion said that the current rates of salary, where teachers earn a cumulative sum of Sh. 54 million, was negotiated to cover the […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion has urged the government to abolish boarding schools in Kenya to prevent the increase in the number of assault and arson cases on teachers and other school staff since the beginning of this year. KNUT has also opposed the reintroduction of corporal punishment on learners […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion has said that the union is able to fund branch and national elections that are set to begin on January 8, 2021. KNUT had announced that the elections were to happen on January 4 but they had to reschedule the elections to January 8 as […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has listed conditions that they feel must be addressed before schools reopen in January 2021. KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) have been locked in a tussle that has gone on for a long time. The National Intelligence Service and the umbrella union […]
Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has begun closing its offices in 110 offices countrywide amid ongoing financial problems. Property in offices of KNUT is being sold at auction due to rent arrears, revealed KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion yesterday. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has continued to withhold the dues of KNUT since 2019. […]