The new CBA has made teachers to aim new allowances.
According to Ronald Tonui, KUPPET’s financial assistant, it’s unfortunate that all other jobs the qualify for higher challenging allowances, apart from teachers.
He says the request will be included in their new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) they will sign with the Teachers Services Council (TSC) next year.
Next year a new CBA should be signed with TSC. A wage increase is required in the CBA. We’re also interested in something called sustainable value because it’s a very difficult job. Others ask for more allowances, and get them, so we are not an exception. “This must be added on our pay slips,” Tonui stated.
Tonui also asked the members of the union to come up with other ideas on the issues they want to be tabled in the new CBA which they are presently working on.Assistant Treasurer also said that they should also give science teachers severance pay because of the harmful chemicals they are exposed to in their practical lessons.
“Those who teach chemistry dealing with very harmful substances, we should get a pay rise.
He also argued for the introduction of “specific work pay or work pay”, and say that most of the teachers become principals of various institutions but there is no salary increment for that work..
Tonui was speaking at the COUP Siaya branch annual meeting in Siaya, he said the decision by their sister union KNUT to suspend teachers across the country has given COUP strength .
He said this decision might be a blessing as it gives them an opportunity to show their strength in the labor movement and defy their belief that they cannot organize when teachers across the country went on strike unless KNUT joined.
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