JSS Teachers To Get Positions In Union Leadership Through KUPPET.
The leadership of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has declared that junior secondary school teachers will be given a position in the union leadership, from the branch level up to the national level.
55 delegates attended a meeting yesterday, May 29, 2024, at Kasarani Sports View in Nairobi, when this resolution was made.
This comes after junior school intern teachers staged a protest in the streets, requesting that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) hire them permanently and pay them the money that the court had mandated.
The union that junior school teachers will join is still up in the air because KNUT and KUPPET, the two largest teachers unions, are fighting it out for control of the JSS teacher corps. While KNUT has been attempting to resolve the intern standoff with the commission diplomatically, KUPPET has been leading the protests and voicing the demands of intern teachers during rallies.
The delegates talked about constitutional revisions during the meeting, and their resolutions will be forwarded to the KUPPET chapters for additional review.
Akello Misori, the KUPPET Secretary General, was scheduled to give a press conference regarding the show cause notices sent to junior school intern teachers who were demonstrating.
Demonstrating teachers were sent show cause letters by the commission, which asked them to explain their absences from school and why their contracts could not be revoked. Approximately 7,357 junior school intern instructors received these kinds of letters, which the court invalidated today, stating that they were unlawful and outside the commission’s authority to reprimand contract teachers.
The matter of the Burial Benevolent Fund (BBF), whose deductions had been halted by the commission, was also discussed during the meeting. The delegates decided that the fund ought to be added back in.
Five union executive members were initially denied access owing to a court petition, which resulted in a standoff before the meeting had started. Eventually, however, they were permitted to attend.
JSS Teachers To Get Positions In Union Leadership Through KUPPET.
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