Kuppet, Knut differ over TSC salary proposal for teachers
After discussing wage reviews with their employer, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), the teachers’ unions ultimately came to different conclusions.
This comes after a meeting about wage review discussions was held behind closed doors on Tuesday at the Kenya School of Government.
A fresh wage offer from TSC was rejected by the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), who claimed that it fell short of both the presidential direction and the wage Remuneration Commission’s recommendation.
The union claims that TSC’s recommended salary ranges from 2.4 to 9.5 percent, with the lowest-paid teachers receiving the highest percentage and the highest-paid teachers receiving the lowest percentage, with respect to salary.
The plan, according to KUPPET Secretary General Akello Misori, is much below their expectations, hence the meeting was unsuccessful.
“What TSC presented is awful and is much less than what the SRC provided. TSC claims that the proposal provides less information than what teachers are anticipating. Even the president’s announcement is outside of what TSC is considering, according to Misori.
Misori questioned why TSC developed a fresh wage proposal as opposed to focusing on the recommendations made by President William Ruto and SRC.
Teachers and other public employees should receive between seven and ten percent, according to the SRC. However, that was exactly what we had in mind. We came to the conclusion that either the SRC had been lying to us or the TSC had not been sincere or serious about these conversations, according to Misori.
The Kenya National Union of Teachers, on the other hand, praised the employer’s suggestion and stated that it takes low-income workers into account.
According to Collins Oyuu, secretary general of KNUT, teachers in classrooms received a bad deal under the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) 2017–2021 because their needs weren’t taken care of.
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“KNUT welcomes the 2.4 to 9.5 percent increase. Let the best-paid teacher receive the lowest percentage and the lowest-paid teacher receive the highest. In that regard, we concur with TSC and urge that it be carried out, according to Oyuu.
“The seven to ten percent is included in what has been presented to us. It is now up to the union and employer to decide who receives what in order to keep the number of recipients between seven and ten.
After the failed negotiations, KUPPET advised the teachers to exercise patience and stated that the negotiations would go on until an agreement was reached.
We’re asking for a lot of patience from our professors because this is consuming a lot of our energy. So that we can have definitive engagements on Monday, we would like to ask them to please be very patient.
As long as we get an agreement with the company and the teachers, we may still take our time.
Kuppet, Knut differ over TSC salary proposal for teachers
