KUPPET Secretary General Announce Strike
Akello Misori, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) secretary general has threatened on teachers downing their tools as schools open if the commission does not pay teachers in time.
Misori mentioned that the teachers are demoralized due to delays in Salaries while speaking in Homabay County.
“We are not begging the government in order to be paid what we have worked for,” Misori said.
The Secretary General indicated that he has written to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) informing them of their plan to down their tools if teachers are not paid their salaries in time for the months of March and April.
Akello further called on the president William Ruto to ensure that the teachers are paid in good time as opposed to the past when teachers had to wait for long. He said otherwise, they will remind them through Teachers’ strike.
“We would not like to revert to the past years where we forced the government into a tag of economic war as students suffered unattended. We like our work but if they push us too much we have no alternative but to put our tools down,” Misori said.
Akello further stated that in a similar way the commission is exerting pressure on teachers to perform and mould learners they should also reciprocate in paying the teachers salaries in good time to enable them meet to their bills in peace.
“The teaching profession involves a lot of brain work, therefore, when their financial status is shaken they panic and slow effective delivery in class,” Said the Secretary General.
The KUPPET Secretary General went further to thank all teachers for their devotion in to their professional call but gave them a disclaimer that they not be so lenient when the employer provokes them.
This comes a midst utterances by the president to deduct 3 percent from all civil servant’s salaries to be contributed towards affordable housing in the country.
KUPPET Secretary General Announce Strike
We newly employed teachers have really suffered for three consecutive months without pay despite the hard economic times… We ask the government remit our salaries.
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