60 Per Cent Salary Increment For Teachers, KNUT
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) is attempting to renegotiate the 2021–2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), as the regular school calendar is anticipated to resume in the upcoming month following disruptions brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak.
The CBA requests, among other demands, a 60% increase in teachers’ base pay across all cadres.
The union lamented the declining standard of living for teachers, who it claimed have been particularly harmed by the high inflation rate seen in the nation.
Collins Oyuu, the secretary general of KNUT, stated, “We will meet with the Teachers Service Commission and have proposed a 60% wage increase for teachers overall.
While our heads and deputies administrators received a lot of attention during the previous CBA (2017–2021), this time around we are fighting for the recognition of all of us as teachers in this country.
The delocalization policy, according to Mr. Oyuu, has caused the rupture of the fundamental family unit for teachers, and he also advocated for its revision.
The KNUT leader disclosed that the union will ask Parliament to provide about Ksh. 4.5 billion to cover the teachers’ professional development induction. This will save instructors from further straining their already tight budgets to continue their education.
“How do we then go ahead and dig deep into our pockets again to cough up another Ksh. 6,000 to pay for our induction when we do not have enough for our teachers, even to maintain themselves?” The TSC should see this as part of their job, he continued.
The union will also talk about creating a teachers’ appeal tribunal to handle incidents of teacher indiscipline during its 69th annual National Delegates Conference (NDC), as well as a revision of the promotion criterion from evaluation to academic credentials.
There will be about 2,000 delegates from all over the nation at the NDC in Kisumu, which is scheduled to end on Friday.
60 Per Cent Salary Increment For Teachers, KNUT
