Review of 2021-2025 CBA, KNUT Demands
Review of 2021-2025 CBA, KNUT Demands. The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) seeks the review of the 2021–2025 CBA to improve teaching and learning for teachers by implementing the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) and other changes to the educational environment.
KNUT National Chairman Patrick Karinga said a meeting with TSC has been set up to look into the CBA during the 12th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the KNUT Kilindini branch in Mombasa.
We’ve followed the process of discussing the teacher’s concerns with the employer, TSC, and we’ve come to agreements on a number of unresolved topics.
According to Karinga, this is a time of transition as a result of the changes and reforms happening within the Ministry of Education.
According to the KNUT Chairman, they would seek a wage raise through the CBA review due to the burden brought on by CBC.
“We are just asking for a pay increase of 60% of our salaries due to the workload that has been added from what we have been having,” the KNUT Chairman said.
Karinga pressed the government to initially hire the instructors on permanent and pensionable conditions in order to encourage those hired as interns the previous year.
Review of 2021-2025 CBA, KNUT Demands
“We have the interns who are being recruited at the moment, yet we have our teachers who were recruited about a year ago and they haven’t been absorbed on Permanent and Pensionable,” said Karinga.
Karinga encouraged the administration to look for a long-term solution to the continuous anti-government demonstrations, arguing that schools cannot afford the disruptions.
Parliamentarian representing Jomvu, Badi Twalib, echoed the KNUT Chairman’s opinions on the CBC review.
“Things are incredibly hard now; they signed when the economy was thriving. Twalib believes that the CBA has to be modified to benefit both our instructors and the present economic environment.
The participant stated that the housing allowances for Mombasa teachers ought to be equal to those of their Nairobi counterparts.
Twalib asserts that the new TSC criteria mandating degree-holding Head Teachers and Principals shouldn’t have an impact on long-tenured educators.
“It shouldn’t be a requirement for head teachers to have a degree. Twalib noted that since a head teacher who has held their position for 20 to 30 years has a wealth of knowledge, TSC should give volunteer teachers preference when opportunities arise.