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KNUT, KUPPET Trash Magoha’s Achievements As Teachers Push For Salary Increment

KNUT, KUPPET Trash Magoha’s Achievements As Teachers Push For Salary Increment

KNUT, KUPPET Trash Magoha’s Achievements As Teachers Push For Salary Increment.

Teachers have criticized Cabinet Secretary George Magoha’s accomplishments, claiming that he has yet to secure his legacy.

The tutors, who were drawn from the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education (KUPPET), were responding to Magoha’s feelings about their salary demands.

Collins Oyuu, secretary general of KNUT, argued that Magoha was tasked with policy development in the ministry, school development, and implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum.

“He has quite some task to accomplish,” Oyuu stated, urging Magoha to keep off speaking on their salary affairs.

Akelo Misori, a KUPPET colleague, added that teachers were impacted by the pandemic’s aftermath, which saw the cost of living rise.

They deserve salary reviews under the 2022-2025 Public Sector Review Cycle – which they were denied last year on the false basis of the pandemic." 

He claimed that talks between the teachers’ union and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) had broken down due to the influence of third parties.

“Our unions have got strong assurances, including written undertakings from the Commission, of the demands being considered within appropriate government channels.

"It is, therefore, reckless for the minister to deride a negotiating process he is not a party,” Misori added. 

Teachers want a salary increase of 60%. They requested that TSC review the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the period 2021-2025.

According to the teachers’ demands, the 60% salary increase was to be implemented immediately for 300,000 teachers.

If approved, the lowest-paid teacher would receive Ksh38,800, up from Ksh14,550.

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Magoha had called their demands unrealistic, claiming that the government was spending far less than the requested amount.

“I can tell you that their demand is mostly unreasonable because the government is spending 25.9 percent of the national budget on education.

“Let us not pretend and politicize everything. There’s no way the government can give teachers a 60 percent salary increment,” he differed. 

KNUT, KUPPET Trash Magoha’s Achievements As Teachers Push For Salary Increment.

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