Kuppet Gives KNEC One Week to Teachers Their Marking Allowances
The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has given the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) an ultimatum of one week’s notice for them to release their allowance for marking National Exams.
According to Julius Korir the Deputy Chairperson, they have been exploited by the KNEC and they won’t allow it to continue.
“ We want the Kenyan National Examination Council to pay our teachers with immediate effect they have exploited our teachers and we won’t allow that. We want the council to call us within a week so that we can solve the issue, or else they will see something that they have never seen” Said Korir.
His Sentiments were echoed by the Deputy Secretary General for KUPPET, Moses Nthurima, who asked the teachers not to mark the incoming National Exams due to late payments.
“We are asking the council not to exploit our teachers since they have not received their last year’s payments and we want to tell our teachers to stay away from Marking this year’s exams, because the council has not taken any responsibility yet,” he said.
They also want the KNEC to negotiate with them the payment rates and methods that will favor the teachers.
In addition, they wanted the Teachers Service Commission to harmonize their salaries to be the same as their secretariat.
“For the last ten years, the secretariat at the TSC has been earning between 50-60% ahead of the teachers in the same job group,
They expect a salary increase.
We are also members of TSC we have looked at the figures and we discovered that discrimination of teachers has led to a lost 127 billion which the teachers should have earned,” added Nthurima.
However, they said that the method used by the TSC to promote teachers is not working.
“The promotions method which is the career progression system is not helping the teachers, it is a system that they have failed to understand.
They argue that there are no teachers in job groups for senior teachers and that the adverts placed by the Teachers Service Commission are not promoting teachers.
“Today the commission has an advert that wants teachers to apply for positions and there is no promotion, yet they say that teachers are not taking the administration role,” concluded Nthurima.
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