TSC Teachers’ Pay Rise Strike Looming as KUPPET threatens countrywide Go-Slow that May Disrupt 2021-2022 KCPE and KCSE national Exams. Here is the Full List of What KUPPET demands from the Teachers Employer ON MATTERS CBA 2021-2025: TSC News today
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The 2021-2022 Kenya Certificate of Primary and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education national tests may not be conducted on the time according to the 2021 KCPE and KCSE timetables at our disposal.
This is after the giant Teachers’ union dubbed KUPPET has breathed fire if TSC does not give in to salary renegotiation demands bordering on the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement, CBA 2021-2025.
HERE IS THE FULL LIST OF DEMANDS TABLED BY KUPPET AFFECTING THE 2021-2025 NON-MONETARY CBA AHEAD OF THE 2021-2022 KCPE and KCSE EXAMS THIS YEAR
The Kenya Union Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has threatened to down tools within seven days if the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) fails to honor its demands.
The union wants TSC to meet its re-negotiation demands of the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
TSC SALARY RISE 2022-2023 FOR TEACHERS WITH HIGHER QUALIFICATIONS
They are demanding that the Commission increases pay for teachers with higher education qualifications, ultimately improving the quality of education in schools across the country.
“When you go to some schools, there are teachers with more than three Ph.D. qualifications. There are even more senior members with higher qualifications than some education directors and yet their pay continues to be general pay…” KUPPET Secretary General Akello Misori noted.
The union has accused TSC of being an unkind employer, who doesn’t enhance teachers’ capacity nor their contribution to education in the country.
They are also demanding that post-graduate allowance be included in the negotiations, besides basic pay, leave and house allowances, for teachers with higher qualifications.
BETTER COMMUTER ALLOWANCE FOR TSC TEACHERS 2022-2023
Earlier, The Standard reported that the union also wants commuter allowance raised from Sh5,000 to Sh8,500 and from Sh16,000 to Sh20,800 for the lowest and highest paid teachers respectively, translating to a rise of between 30 per cent and 70 per cent.
According to Misori, the union wrote to TSC on January 17 demanding the re-opening of the CBA within 21 days.
“All the commission has done is to acknowledge our letter and promise to respond at a later stage after ‘interrogating’ the contents.”
The union had also asked for a salary raise of between 30 and 70 per cent for the highest-paid and the lowest-earning teachers.
This means that gloom days are ahead especially for the 2021 KCSE and KCPE candidates who have already been delayed from transiting to the next education levels by the Covid 19 pandemic.
If the looming strike comes through, the national 2022 marking exercise of KCPE and KCSE exams may also be disrupted since teachers have already been deployed massively massively by the Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC to perform central duties such as marking of the scripts, cross checking and entering of learners’ scores.
KNEC last year faced a huge blow after examiners stationed in various KNEC marking centres spread across Nairobi downed their tools to root for better pay and better working conditions.
