KNUT demands114 000 teachers to be promoted
KNUT demands114 000 teachers to be promoted
KNUT demands114 000 teachers to be promoted
As promised by the Kenya Kwanza government, the teachers union has asked that 114,000 teachers who have stagnated in one grade be promoted by July of this year.
Collins Oyuu, secretary general of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut), claimed in a speech in Mombasa that some teachers have been stuck in the same grade for 17 years.
“The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) must promote 114,000 teachers who have remained in the same grade for more than 17 years, according to a union demand made in July of this year. This is not acceptable,” Oyuu remarked.
He claimed that even though money has been set aside for teacher advancement, TCS is moving slowly and its workers are still suffering. Oyuu stated, “TSC cannot keep ignoring what it is supposed to do.”
The TSC was criticized by the Knut leader for publishing the results of promoted instructors without providing their names, merely their TSC numbers. This would aid in determining which region is receiving preference, he claimed.
Top union leaders were present at Oyuu’s speech during the Knut Mombasa Branch annual general meeting held at St. Luke Hall.
Julius Melly, the chairman of the Education Parliamentary Committee, stated last year that TSC had received Sh1 billion from the National Treasury to advance at least 13,713 teachers who had become stagnant in the same job category.
Conversely, he stated that this amounts to just half of the Sh2.2 billion that the TSC had previously stated was necessary to promote primary, secondary, and college instructors to higher grades.
Knut representatives insisted on Thursday at the Mombasa conference that teachers should likewise be free from “unnecessary taxes” in order to encourage high-quality instruction and output.
It is appropriate to exempt teachers from the Housing Levy and other unconventional taxes. We want incentives like a thirty percent pay increase,” Mr. Dan Aloo, the Knut National Executive Council, stated.
Mr. Aloo asked that Mombasa teachers’ housing allowances be equal to those of their Nairobi colleagues, as stipulated by the Kenyan Constitution.
He stated that Mombasa has a 1,000 teacher shortfall and that “teachers in Mombasa must get equal pay like their colleagues in Nairobi under Chapter Four of the Bill of Rights to equity and equality.”
According to Aloo, understaffing, taxes, and overworked pay slips have made mental health the newest frontier problem for educators.
He stated, “Spiral acts, truancy, absenteeism, and desertion are the effects of this.” Aloo added, “We are also requesting that the TSC grant head teachers and principals who do not have degrees a moratorium or an extension of time to pursue them.”
Oyuu, meanwhile, requested that the government hire diploma instructors to teach grades 8 and 9.
He urged the JSC intern teachers to return to their jobs after they staged street protests calling for permanent and pensionable employment arrangements.
