Kisumu Branch of Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has demanded the immediate implementation of the second phase of their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) before schools reopen next term, or else they will down their tools.
Branch Executive Secretary Zablon Awange said in Kisumu that as schools close, they expect as teachers that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will factor in the second phase of CBA payable at the end of July.
Awange said the CBA must be executed with arrears latest by the end of August.
The official said neither the recent unrest by Gen Z and subsequent effects nor the withdrawal of the Finance Bill 2024 should be used as an excuse to trash the CBA.
Saying the CBA is a legal instrument signed and deposited in the industrial court, he noted that it should not be perceived it is now in limbo, adding that they will not entertain any excuse.
“Teachers expect nothing less than its implementation; anything short will witness the greatest industrial strike in the education sector in the third term,” he warned. “Failure of these we have agreed, as Kisumu teachers, schools won’t be opened for the third term until and unless the CBA second phase is implemented and JSS interns are employed.”
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