The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has urged the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to review its policies and dealings with teachers. A KNUT report has indicated that teachers’ morale countywide has gone low due to the poor management by TSC through unpopular policies coupled with a sustained savage attack on their union. “As the year comes to a close…the KNUT leadership calls on TSC to urgently review its policies,” said KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion, who was speaking to the press on Tuesday.
The delocalization programme, which faced stern opposition from KNUT officials was the most notable of policies not favored by teachers. Other policies include the introduction of digital platform for union membership validation, introduction of two parallel payrolls in the public teaching service among others.
Sossion indicated that KNUT and TSC should start the new year on a clean slate, seeking to iron out their affairs in all matters, including relations, “TSC has no option but to put its house in order and meet KNUT before Christmas as ordered by the Employment Labour Relations Court to iron out teething industrial relations matters in readiness for a peaceful 2020,” said Sossion.
Written by Elias Wekesa