KNUT has set its strike date on August 25, 2024 midnight, officially confirming that teachers will not be available in school to kick off third term.
In a press release today, KNUT announced that the strike will begin on the midnight of August 25, 2024, coinciding with the KUPPET strike that was announced earlier to start August 26, 2024.
In the statement signed by the Secretary General Collins Oyuu, the National Executive Council was categorical that no teacher will be in school come the opening of schools for third term.
“All schools shall not be attended to by teachers in the entire Republic. The KNEC has further directed that all Branch Executive Councils mobilize to have total WITHDRAWAL OF LABOUR in all schools in the 110 Branches until the matter is resolved and the strike action is called off…” reads part of the cold statement.
In a long and detailed account of how they have tried to bring the government to the negotiating table, the statement expresses the frustrations they have faced, with Teachers Service Commission (TSC) employing what seems to be a delay tactic.
“The Commission responded…informing that they were to revert (get back) to the Union once internal consultations on the matter were finalized. Seven days later, there has neither been an invitation nor reasons given why the meeting has never materialized,” the statement reads.
The notice by KNUT had been cooking all along, with all indications pointing to the grounding of learning in third term after the government looked to target their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in the budget cuts after the rejection of the Finance Bill 2024.
The strike notice is putting the government on the back footing, with also lecturers having issued their notice to strike in September due to sporadic or non-existent payment of salaries.
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