KUPPET Issues 7-Day Notice to TSC For New CBA Talks

The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has given the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) seven days to begin talks on a brand new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA); failure to which they may strike starting June 28.

Led by its chairperson, Omboko Milemba, the union expressed issues over the delays in talks for a brand new CBA, because the present one expires on June 30 this yr.

Addressing journalists on Saturday, June 21, Milemba revealed that that they had already notified Labour Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua about their issues, as TSC had remained quiet on the matter.

During the presser, the KUPPET boss urged the CS to provoke the talks instantly, failure to which the union can be compelled to name for a nationwide strike.

“TSC ought to invite us for talks, the opposite one that also needs to be concerned is the Labour Cabinet Secretary, who ought to ensure that TSC convenes the talks instantly,” Milemba said.

“Other individuals who also needs to contribute to those talks are the Members of Parliament, particularly the National Assembly’s Education Committee,” he added.

KUPPET’s Secretary General, Akello Misori, famous that the brand new CBA was of nice significance, because it was meant to handle lecturers’ welfare and inspire them.

“We have given the federal government seven days to handle the difficulty of CBA as a result of we are not looking for our members to be overexposed in an occasion there is no such thing as a CBA past June 30,” Akello Misori said.

In the brand new CBA, KUPPET has proposed a rise within the lecturers’ primary pay by 50 per cent for lecturers in increased job grades and a 100 per cent improve for lecturers in decrease job teams.

The union can be calling for the modernisation of lecturers’ home allowance by growing it by 20 per cent for all lecturers. Similarly, KUPPET can be demanding a rise within the hardship allowance for some lecturers.

In the CBA, KUPPET is proposing a rise within the hardship allowance by 200 per cent for these in increased job grades and 250 per cent for these in decrease job grades.

 Further, the union is demanding the introduction of an time beyond regulation allowance for lecturers throughout the board. Nonetheless, KUPPET opposed the federal government’s choice to take away the examination charge.